Ashutosh Bhagwat is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. He holds a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University and a J.D. with Honors from the University of Chicago. Professor Bhagwat has written extensively about the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, with a particular focus on the relationship between First Amendment rights and democracy, as well as the impact of new technologies on democratic discourse. His most recent book is Our Democratic First Amendment.