Faculty Profile: Francesca Procaccini
An introduction to Francesca Procaccini, Assistant Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School.
Francesca Procaccini researches and writes about federal courts and constitutional law, particularly First Amendment law. She joined the Vanderbilt Law faculty in 2022 after teaching at Harvard Law School for two years as a Climenko Fellow, where her scholarship focused on constitutional political rights. Before that, she was a fellow with the Yale Law School Information Society Project, where she researched modern applications of First Amendment law to digital political speech and taught courses on free speech law and media law. Prior to entering the legal academy, Professor Procaccini was an appellate attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she litigated civil rights cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor Procaccini earned her law degree cum laude at Harvard Law School, and she is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard College. After law school, she was a law clerk for Judge Jerome Farris, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Her scholarly articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Additionally, her legal analysis regularly appears in media outlets including the New York Times, CNN, NPR, LA Times, and The Atlantic. In both of her two years teaching at Vanderbilt, Professor Procaccini won the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor award.
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