Daniel E. Rauch
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
2023-2024

Daniel Rauch studies the laws governing political speech, and how they work (and ought to work) in our digital democracy. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, the Ohio State Law Journal, and the Yale Journal on Regulation.
Daniel previously worked as a data privacy and cybersecurity practitioner. Before that, he was a senior advisor to the Colorado Attorney General on law, policy, and technology issues, and an appellate litigator at the Colorado Department of Law. Daniel also served as a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and to then-Judge Neil Gorsuch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Daniel holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Before law school, he taught middle school English in Newark, New Jersey through the Teach For America national service program.
Education
- J.D. Yale Law School, 2016
- A.B. Politics Princeton University, 2010
Representative Publications
- Daniel E. Rauch, Defamation as Democracy Tort, 172 U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming).
- Daniel E. Rauch, Customized Speech and the First Amendment, 35 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 405 (2022).
- Daniel E. Rauch & David Schleicher, Like Uber, but for Local Government Law: The Future of Local Regulation of the Sharing Economy, 76 Ohio St. L. J. 901 (2015).