• Associate Professor, School of Law

Richards

• B.A. at George Washington University
• J.D. at University of Virginia
• M.A. at University of Virginia

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Saggy Pants Bans May Not Be Lawful Are your fashion choices lawful? WUSTL's Richards comments on saggy pants laws. Pine Lawn, a mostly black municipality outside St. Louis, is among a growing number of U.S. cities enacting laws that ban low-slung pants. Critics say the bans amount to government attacks on youthful fashion that some find offensive. And constitutional scholars say they may not be lawful. WUSTL law professor and First Amendment expert Neil Richards comments. References: — Saggy Pants Bans May Not Be Lawful in the Associated Press and 74 others.

Court Settles Fight Between Boehner, McDermott Law Professor Neil Richards comments on politics, free speech and privacy rights. A 10-year-old case about politics, free speech and privacy rights that started with an illegally recorded telephone conversation, was resolved at the D.C. federal appeals court. WUSTL law professor Neil Richards, an expert in First Amendment and privacy law, comments on the court's decision. References: May 1, 2007 — Court Settles Fight Between Boehner, McDermott in the NPR: All Things Considered

Documents Leaked to Web Prompt First-Amendment Debate Transcript of Morning Edition program on the free speech rights of bloggers that came before a federal court on Wednesday. WUSTL law professor Neil Richards comments on whether individual bloggers deserve the same protections as the established media. References: Jan. 17, 2007 — Documents Leaked to Web Prompt First-Amendment Debate in the NPR Morning Edition (transcript) and 1 others.

Leaked Documents Spur First-Amendment Debate WUSTL law professor Neil Richards comments on free speech Snigdha Prakash reports on a case before a federal judge that could determine if bloggers have the same free speech rights as traditional media. WUSTL law professor Neil Richards comments. References: — Leaked Documents Spur First-Amendment Debate in the NPR Morning Edition

Journalists' documents sought in CIA leak case The judge overseeing the leak case of Lewis Scooter Libby has rejected journalists' claims of reporters' privilege. Judge Reggie Walton today ordered Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper to turn over documents that the judge said could be relevant to Libby's defense. Washington University law professor Neil Richards says that shows the care that Walton took not to infringe too much on reporters. References: May 26, 2006 — Journalists' documents sought in CIA leak case in the National Public Radio (NPR)

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Neil Richards

In addition to clerking for Rehnquist, Richards clerked for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. After his clerkships, Richards was the inaugural Hugo Black Faculty Fellow at the University of Alabama School of Law, where he taught courses on property and the First Amendment. He then practiced law for several years in Washington, D.C. with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, in that firm's appellate litigation and electronic commerce practice. Richards was named Professor of the Year during his first year at Washington University School of Law.

Richards is the author of "Reconciling Data Privacy and the First Ammendment" (UCLA Law Review), "The Information Privacy Law Project and the Limits of Metaphor" (Georgetown Law Journal, forthcoming), " 'The Good War,' The Jehovah's Witnesses and the First Amendment" (Virginia Law Review), "Clio and the Court: A Reassessment of the Supreme Court's Uses of History" (Journal of Law and Politics), "The Supreme Court Justice and 'Boring' Cases" (The Green Bag), "The Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Internet Privacy Litigation" (Libel Defense Resources Council Cyber Space Project), and "U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton and Competing Notions of Federalism" (Journal of Law and Politics). He is a frequent commentator on his areas of research in a variety of national media.

Richards graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in History with Special Honors from George Washington University in 1994, where he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Richards then attended the University of Virginia, where he received both a J.D. and an M.A. in History in 1997. While in law school, he served as Executive Editor of the Virginia Law Review, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and was a recipient, among other awards, of the Slaughter Honor Prize and the Davis Prize in Constitutional Law. His master's thesis examined the extent to which the Supreme Court's uses of history in the 1990s had changed since the Court's often-criticized use of similar historical materials in the key cases of the Warren Court.