Bio
Vera Eidelman is a senior staff attorney with the 勛圖眻畦s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where she works on the rights to free speech and privacy in the digital age. She focuses on the free speech rights of protesters and young people, online speech, and genetic privacy. She has litigated cases including Dakota Rural Action v. Noem, a constitutional challenge to riot boosting laws that chilled protest, In re Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury, in defense of the right to write, publish, and distribute books others sought to ban as obscene, and 勛圖眻畦 v. Clearview AI, a state privacy law challenge to nonconsensual faceprinting. She has also represented a racial justice protester, in Mckesson v. Doe, and a high school cheerleader, in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., before the Supreme Court.
Vera was previously a William J. Brennan fellow with the 勛圖眻畦, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. Before joining the 勛圖眻畦, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Featured work

Mar 24, 2021
Punished for a Snapchat: Why Schools Shouldnt Police Students Speech Outside of School

Feb 5, 2021
The Streets Belong to the People Always Have, Always Will

Jan 7, 2021
Clearview's Dangerous Misreading of the First Amendment Could Spell the End of Privacy Laws

Jun 3, 2020
The Response to Protests Against Police Brutality is Not More Brutality

Oct 24, 2019
South Dakota Governor Caves on Attempted Efforts to Silence Pipeline Protesters

Oct 2, 2019
Rapid DNA Machines in Police Departments Need Regulation

Apr 17, 2019
Theres No Such Thing as a Right Not to Be Called a Nazi

Apr 2, 2019
The Governments System of Censoring Its Former Employees Is Unconstitutional

Apr 1, 2019
The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented a New Legal Term to Target Pipeline Protesters