In addition to his teaching and research, Gautam frequently speaks on panels, in conferences, and at symposia on free speech, technology, and legal education. He also represents non-profits and law professors in amicus filings in state and federal courts, and comments on current issues for a range of media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, NPR, Slate, Scientific American, and the Atlantic.
Gautam serves on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education and on the Board of Editors of the Clinical Law Review. He previously served on the board of the Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education and as the co-President of the Clinical Legal Education Association; he currently serves on the board of the Columbia Daily Spectator.
Gautam is a contributor to Balls and Strikes and frequently comments on current legal issues in the media. In Spring 2024, he was a Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law; that year, Gautam received the M. Shanara Gilbert Award from the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education.
Prior to Cornell, Gautam served as Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where he founded Vanderbilt’s First Amendment Clinic. He completed his clinical fellowship at the University of Michigan Law School, and worked on privacy and speech issues at the Center for Democracy and Technology. He also makes ice cream and formerly blogged at Habeas Custard.
In law school, Gautam worked as a student-attorney in the Civil-Criminal Litigation Clinic and the Enterpreneurship Clinic, served as Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, served as Secretary of Outlaws, and played keyboards in T.J. Hooper and the Learned Hands. Prior to graduate school he was an Editorial Assistant in the Knopf Group of Random House, Inc.
Gautam earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School; his M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information; and his B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
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