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Dr Bechtold is a Lecturer at the Law School. She is an American qualified lawyer with over 10 years of experience as a practicing attorney. She holds a BA from Scripps College, a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, an LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a PhD from Durham Law School. While at the LSE, she co-founded LSE Pro Bono Matters, a post-graduate led pro bono group based at the LSE Law Department that engages in human rights advocacy (see http://www.lse.ac.uk/law/probono).
Prior to entering academia, Dr Bechtold served as the Legal Director of a state affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, a non-partisan, non-profit organisation that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. In this position, she litigated human rights cases in state and federal courts in the United States. She also has extensive experience working for law firms, including over three years as a litigation associate at DLA Piper LLP.
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Recent Efforts to Regulate Expression by Conservatives in the UK and the US Highlight a Shift Toward Illiberalism
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and WebsitesHas the United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the marketplace of ideas as a failed experiment?
Communications Law, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 150-160Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Relationship Between Fox News and the Republican Party Undermines the First Amendment and is Poisoning American Democracy
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and WebsitesUS Capitol attack: how the public reaction to the January 6 hearings reflects deep divisions in the US
Contributions to Specialist PublicationsScotland’s New Hate Crime Act Imperils Freedom of Expression
Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 250-257Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2022.0765
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Recent Efforts to Regulate Expression by Conservatives in the UK and the US Highlight a Shift Toward Illiberalism
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and WebsitesHas the United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the marketplace of ideas as a failed experiment?
Communications Law, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 150-160Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Relationship Between Fox News and the Republican Party Undermines the First Amendment and is Poisoning American Democracy
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and WebsitesUS Capitol attack: how the public reaction to the January 6 hearings reflects deep divisions in the US
Contributions to Specialist PublicationsScotland’s New Hate Crime Act Imperils Freedom of Expression
Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 250-257Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2022.0765
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Domestic Disinformation from State and Political Actors is a Global Threat to the Democratic Order
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and WebsitesCounter terrorism, Courts, and the Constitution
Combating Terrorism in the 21st Century: American Laws, Strategies, and Agencies. Rudolph, Jr, J. R., Lahnem, W. J. (eds.). ABC-CLIOChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] Book description
Glorifying Censorship? Anti-Terror Law, Speech, and Online Regulation
The Oxford Handbook of Freedom of Speech. Oxford University Press, pp. 518-541, 24 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827580.013.28
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The Republican Party’s Misappropriation of ‘Free Speech’ Undermines American Democracy
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and WebsitesFree speech in America: is the US approach fit for purpose in the age of social media?
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