Jennifer Safstrom

Jennifer Safstrom

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic

Research Interests

First Amendment law, civil rights

Contact Me

jennifer.safstrom@vanderbilt.edu

Biography

Jennifer Safstrom teaches the Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic at Vanderbilt Law School. Before joining Vanderbilt's law faculty, Professor Safstrom worked as counsel at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and as supervising attorney and clinical teaching fellow with the Civil Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law. She also served as the Dunn Legal Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia.

Safstrom earned her J.D. at Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. at the University of Miami. Her legal scholarship has been published in the Clinical Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Harvard Latinx Law Review, Barry Law Review, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and Loyola University Chicago’s Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences, among other journals. She has been quoted in the Washington Post, Above the Law, CityLab, and Breitbart and in other local and national publications.

Education

J.D. Georgetown University Law Center
B.A. University of Miami