Peter A. Joy is the Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law at Washington University’s School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. He also is the university’s director of the university’s Criminal Justice Clinic. He is a former general counsel for the Ohio Chapter of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and a former member of the legal committees for the Ohio chapter and Missouri chapter of the ACLU. He has represented clients with First Amendment issues including freedom of expression, academic freedom and right to petition the government in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels as well as written amicus briefs focusing on First Amendment issues. (See Joy’s biography at Washington University’s website.)

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