Second Annual Workshop for Aspiring Free Speech Scholars
co-hosted by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (ASU)
and the Hoover Institution (Stanford University)
Due to a technical glitch, submissions received before June 4, 2026 were lost; please resubmit (or submit for the first time) at the new URL listed below, https://tinyurl.com/aspiring-free-speech-scholars
Are you a law student, judicial law clerk, attorney, or early-career academic hoping to publish a journal article on free speech law? Would you value the chance to obtain guidance on your draft from leading free-speech scholars?
If so, submit your draft by Sunday, August 16, 2026. (The piece should still be a draft article, not one that has already appeared in print or is slated for publication within the next six months.) Do not worry if the draft isn’t fully polished, or if some sections are incomplete; we are evaluating drafts, not finished works.
We intend to select submissions that show particular promise and invite their authors to a workshop where they can present their papers and receive constructive feedback. The workshop is set for Saturday, October 24, 2026 (with a dinner the evening prior) at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in Phoenix. We will notify the selected authors by Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
Funds are available to cover transportation and lodging for the chosen authors. Eligibility is limited to individuals who have published three or fewer law-related journal articles to date.
We also plan to officially recognize up to three of the top articles considered during our review. If the authors wish, their articles may also be reviewed for publication in the Journal of Free Speech Law (http://JournalOfFreeSpeechLaw.org), presumably after revising the pieces in light of the workshop feedback.
If you are interested, please submit your draft at http://tinyurl.com/aspiring-free-speech-scholars (Google logon required). Please use single-spacing and present the article neatly so it is easier to read.
Please do not include your name or law-school affiliation in the document or the filename, and please do not add an author’s note thanking advisors or others. Name your file with the title of your article (or a clearly identifiable portion of it). We aim to review the drafts without knowing the authors’ identities.
If you have questions, please consult http://tinyurl.com/aspiring-free-speech-faq; if your question is not addressed there, please email volokh@stanford.edu.
Many thanks to the Stanton Foundation for its generous support.
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Organizing faculty: the Dan Cracchiolo Chair in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University), along with the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA School of Law.
