Sonja R. West
Sonja R. West, Otis Brumby Distinguished Professor of First Amendment Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, focuses on issues involving the First Amendment and the United States Supreme Court. Her research appears in top legal journals such as the Harvard Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the California Law Review.
A graduate of the University of Chicago School of Law, Professor West served as a law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
Her other professional experience includes several years practicing media law with the Los Angeles law firms Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Davis Wright Tremaine. Professor West has provided legal commentary to numerous news organizations including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, the National Law Journal, MSNBC, and National Public Radio.