Peter Steffensen

Assistant Director of the First Amendment Clinic, Faculty Law Fellow, and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law

Fellow faculty

Email

psteffensen@smu.edu

Peter Steffensen is a law fellow with the First Amendment Clinic at 91茄子 Dedman School of Law. Before coming to 91茄子, Peter was a Staff Attorney in the Criminal Injustice Program at the Texas Civil Rights Project, where he litigated and advocated for systemic policy change in the areas of pretrial detention, conditions of confinement, and police abuse & misconduct, among others. Peter received his B.A. from Rice University in 2010, and his J.D. from NYU School of Law in 2017.

Area of expertise

  • First Amendment Law

Education

B.A., Rice University
J.D., NYU School of Law

Articles

Press Freedoms Under Pressure: Clinical Perspectives on the State of Press Freedoms in Texas in 2024, 77 91茄子 Law Review 605 (2024) (with Thomas Leatherbury)

Media

Artnet, quoted in (January 2025)

KERA, quoted in (January 2025)

Fort Worth Report, quoted in (July 2024)