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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Matthew L. Schafer Westfield on
November 16, 2023
Law Professor Takes Issue With Leader Editorial

I’ve practiced FirstAmendment law for more than a decade–first, in D.C. and now in New York. I’ve represented newspapers from New York to Australia. I teach media law at Fordham Law School and regularly publish scholarship on the history of the FirstAmendment. I believe deeply in that Amendment and in newspapers as a bulwark against intrusions on the rights protected by it.

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