Laura Lederer, Co-Founder

Laura Lederer is now the director of the Center on Speech, Equality and Harm, a national law institute formed in 1992 to examine the constitutional significance of harmful speech, as well as to encourage research, debate, and dialogue among scholars, social scientists, community leaders, and individuals concerned with both the protection of freedom of speech and the detrimental effects of harmful speech. It also addresses commercial sexual exploitation on a worldwide basis, focusing in particular on legal interventions.