
Greg Lukianoff
President
Greg Lukianoff is the president of FIRE and has been with FIRE since 2001, when he was hired to be the organization's first director of legal and public advocacy. Greg is a graduate of American University and of Stanford Law School, where he focused on First Amendment and constitutional law. Greg has published articles in the LA Times, The Boston Globe, The Stanford Technology Law Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Fraternal Law, Inside Higher Ed, the New York Post, and numerous other publications. He is a blogger for the Huffington Post and served as a regular columnist for the Daily Journal of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Greg is a frequent guest on local and national syndicated radio programs, has represented FIRE on national television shows-including CBS Evening News, The O'Reilly Factor, Glenn Beck, The Abrams Report, Hannity and Colmes, and Buchanan and Press-and has testified before the U.S. Senate about free speech issues on America's campuses.
Before joining FIRE, Greg practiced law in Northern California, interned at the ACLU of Northern California and the Organization for Aid to Refugees in Prague, Czech Republic, and was the development manager of the EnvironMentors Project in Washington, D.C. Greg, along with Harvey A. Silverglate and David French, is a co-author of FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus. Greg is also a proud member of the board of directors of Philadelphia's Theater Exile. He lives in New York City.
Contributions
- "The Court Got It Right," William Creeley, Samantha Harris, and Greg Lukianoff, Inside Higher Ed, August 18, 2008
- "Maybe Harvard Thought It Was The ‘Manifestly Illegal’ Party?," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, June 24, 2008
- "California Über Alles?," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, June 11, 2008
- "Campus Speech Codes: Absurd, Tenacious, and Everywhere," Greg Lukianoff, National Association of Scholars, May 23, 2008
- "Judging a book by its cover - literally," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, May 2, 2008
- "Fireproofing the Ivory Tower," Michael Shermer and Greg Lukianoff, Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2008
- "What should K-12 kids learn?," Greg Lukianoff and Michael Shermer, Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2008
- "Dust-Up Round 3! Ben Stein's 'Expelled'," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, April 16, 2008
- "Teach the controversy?," Greg Lukianoff and Michael Shermer, Los Angeles Times, April 16, 2008
- "'LA Times'' Dust-Up Round Two! Me vs. Michael Shermer on the freedom from being offended," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, April 15, 2008
- "A right to not be offended?," Greg Lukianoff and Michael Shermer, Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2008
- "Dust-Up! Me vs. Michael Shermer in 'LA Times'," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, April 14, 2008
- "Marxist professors or sensitive students?," Michael Shermer and Greg Lukianoff, Los Angeles Times, April 14, 2008
- "Muzzle Tov to Brandeis and Valdosta State!," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, April 11, 2008
- "'What Can The Virginia Tech Tragedy Do For Me?'," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, April 7, 2008
- "Breaking news: Offensive and untrue material discovered on Internet!," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, March 31, 2008
- "From Facebook.com to BONG HiTS 4 JESUS: Campus Rights in 2007," Greg Lukianoff, 2008 Annual Conference of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs, February 6, 2008
- "CSU and ‘Conventions of Decency’," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, October 1, 2007
- "Florida tasers away student rights," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, September 18, 2007
- "College repeals “Hug at your own risk” rule," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, August 23, 2007
- "Is Mayor Bloomberg OK with being duped by Tufts University?," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, August 2, 2007
- "Ward Churchill fired: What's next?," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, July 25, 2007
- "‘New York Times’ disappoints," Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, June 29, 2007
- "Open Letter to NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg," Greg Lukianoff, Huffington Post, May 26, 2007
- "Returning fire from FIRE," Greg Lukianoff and Robert Shibley, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 7, 2007
- "Social justice and political orthodoxy," Greg Lukianoff, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 2007
- "Facing off over Facebook," Greg Lukianoff and William Creeley, The Boston Phoenix, February 21, 2007
- "MSU pursues Orwellian thought reform," Greg Lukianoff, The Detroit News, February 7, 2007
- "Litmus lesson: Teachers College's political tests," Greg Lukianoff and Robert Shibley, New York Post, October 12, 2006
- "No free speech for SUNY profs?," Greg Lukianoff and Robert Shibley, New York Post, August 1, 2006
- "Colleges assume unchecked power in sexual consent policies," Greg Lukianoff, Daily Journal, June 21, 2006
- "UNC-Chapel Hill Tries to Spin Away a Major Defeat," Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris, Daily Journal, May 25, 2006
- "FIRE Statement on Cartoons Depicting Mohammed," Greg Lukianoff, February 22, 2006
- "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Campus Rights in 2005," Greg Lukianoff and Robert Shibley, February 9, 2006
- "Harassment report flawed from get-go," Greg Lukianoff, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, February 2, 2006
- "FIRE Policy Statement on ‘Hosty v. Carter’," Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris, September 19, 2005
- "The Chill Is Nothing New," Greg Lukianoff, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 9, 2005
- "Wronging student rights," Greg Lukianoff, The Boston Globe, September 3, 2005
- "Playing a Dangerous Game," Greg Lukianoff and Azhar Majeed, Inside Higher Ed, September 2, 2005
- "Oxy President's Departure Doesn't Erase Speech Issue," Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris, Daily Journal, July 6, 2005
- "The ‘No Viewpoint’ Viewpoint," Greg Lukianoff, Inside Higher Education, June 6, 2005
- "‘Lyle’ Portends Life Without Freedom, ‘Friends,’ ‘Seinfeld’," Greg Lukianoff, Daily Journal, March 10, 2005
- "Defining Free Speech," Greg Lukianoff, Columbia Spectator, February 18, 2005
- "Protecting Free Speech Means Rising Above Professor's Words," Greg Lukianoff, Daily Journal, February 15, 2005
- "Administrators at Risk: A FIRE Seminar on Common Legal and Policy Misunderstandings," David French and Greg Lukianoff, February 10, 2005
- "Colleges Must Educate Students About Value of Free Speech," Greg Lukianoff, Daily Journal, December 29, 2004
- "Dark Times for Students at Occidental College," Greg Lukianoff and William Creeley, Campus Circle, December 27, 2004
- "FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus," David French, Greg Lukianoff, and Harvey Silverglate, November 30, 2004
- "No Jokes, Please: Demonize First, Ask Questions Later," Greg Lukianoff, Daily Journal (Los Angeles and San Francisco), November 24, 2004
- "Fraternities Must Stand Up to Schools' Squelching Free Speech," Greg Lukianoff and Matthew Vasconcellos, The Daily Journal, October 11, 2004
- "Dark times for student rights," Greg Lukianoff and William Creeley, The Northerner, October 6, 2004
- "Freedom of speech: RIC ends the inquisition, not the debate," Greg Lukianoff, The Providence Journal, September 22, 2004
- "Occidental College's Censorship of Radio Station Marks Abuse of Power," William Creeley and Greg Lukianoff, Daily Journal, September 22, 2004
- "Practical Advice for Fraternities Caught in the Battle for Free Speech on Campus," Matthew Vasconcellos and Greg Lukianoff, Fraternal Law, September 16, 2004
- "The intimidating atmosphere for free speech on campus," Greg Lukianoff, Colorado Daily, February 19, 2004
- "Universities become censorship zones," Greg Lukianoff, The Detroit News, November 18, 2003
- "The High Price of Campus Free Speech," Greg Lukianoff, The Hoya, November 11, 2003
- "Testimony of Greg Lukianoff, Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education," Greg Lukianoff, United States Senate Full Committee Hearing, October 29, 2003
- "FIRE spokesman clarifies organization's position," Greg Lukianoff, The Crimson White, August 15, 2003
- "Speech Codes: Alive and Well at Colleges...," Harvey Silverglate and Greg Lukianoff, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 1, 2003
- "On Student Rights," Greg Lukianoff, The Washington Times, August 4, 2002