Evelyn Douek is an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She teaches and writes about freedom of speech and internet regulation.

Before joining the Stanford Law faculty, Douek was a senior research fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and a lecturer at Harvard Law School, where she earned her Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) and an LLM. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws (BComm/LLB) with first-class honors from the University of New South Wales, where she served as executive editor of the UNSW Law Journal. Douek also clerked for the Honourable Chief Justice Susan Kiefel of the High Court of Australia and worked (briefly) as a commercial litigator.

Douek received the law school’s John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2024. Her work has been published in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review Online, Lawfare, The Atlantic, WIRED, and Slate, amongst other publications. She has also hosted several podcasts, including Moderated Content at Stanford Law School.