James Weinstein is a professor of constitutional law and a faculty fellow at the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at Arizona State University. He is also an associate fellow at the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge. His areas of research are constitutional law, particularly free speech, as well as jurisprudence and legal history.

Jeremy Waldron is a New York University law professor and author of The Harm in Hate Speech, a book about whether the United States should adopt a European-style ban on hate speech.

William McCants is director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution and a fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy. McCants serves as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and has served with the government and think tanks related to Islam, the Middle East and terrorism. He was also a State Department senior […]

Anastasia Norton is manager at the strategic consulting firm Monitor 360 and former senior analyst in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.

Bruce Riedel, director of the Brookings Intelligence Project and senior fellow at the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and Center for Middle East Policy. His areas of expertise include counterterrorism, Arab-Israeli issues, Persian Gulf security, and India-Pakistan relations.

Daniel Byman is a senior fellow and research director at the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. He also serves as a professor at Georgetown University. His research areas include counterterrorism and Middle East security. He was a staff member on the 9/11 Commission and worked for the U.S. government. He is the author of A High Price: The Triumphs […]

Karima Bennoune is a professor of international law at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here.

The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups and other extremists throughout the United States and exposes their activities to law enforcement agencies, the media and the public.

The ACLU addresses hate speech in its work on free speech, religion, LGBT rights, human rights and racial justice.