Jessie Appleby
An Iowa native, Jessie received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa in 2009 and her law degree from Georgetown in 2018, where she was the notes editor for the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. She is a member of the D.C. bar. Before joining ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ, Jessie worked on war crimes and human rights violations for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Pristina, Kosovo, and, most recently, as a death penalty law clerk with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Columbus. Before law school, she also served in legislative affairs in the White House budget office and as an analyst in the Missile Defense Agency.
In her free time, Jessie can be found traveling with her sketchbook or exploring her new home of Philadelphia.
Recent Writings
- University of Florida suspends student for three years over peaceful protest,
- Faculty can address Israeli-Palestinian conflict in class assignments, but there are limits,
- Moving events online due to protests is still a heckler’s veto,
- Montgomery College student and faculty groups’ film screening canceled just minutes after college president’s 11th hour condemnation ,
- Campus encampment bans rarely violate the First Amendment. Here’s why. ,
- No, the Berkeley Law student didn’t have a First Amendment right to interrupt the dean’s backyard party,
- Cornell concedes small changes to otherwise substantially restrictive new speech policies ,
- Cornell falls short with new expression policy and guidance on faculty political speech ,
- VICTORY: Princeton amends no-contact order policy after ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ/ADL letter,
- Princeton keeps letting students weaponize no-contact orders against student journalists ,
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