Stuart M. Benjamin

William W. Van Alstyne Distinguished Professor of Law

School of Law

benjamin@law.duke.edu

Duke Law School Room 3187, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0360

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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Credentials
1. Education

Academic Experience
1. Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
2. Previous Duke Appointments & Affiliations

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Research
1. Selected Grants
2. External Relationships

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Teaching & Mentoring
1. Recent Courses

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Professional Activities

Scholarly Works

Brendan Carr and the Fog of War

Other Volokh Conspiracy · 2026 Cite

Making Broadcast Content Regulation Aggressive Again

Journal article Journal of Free Speech Law · 2026 Link to item Cite

Content Moderation and the First Amendment

Book section · 2026 Link to item Cite

The FCC Chair's Unprecedented, and Constitutionally Problematic, Response to Jimmy Kimmel

Other Volokh Conspiracy · 2025 Cite

The New Administrative State?

Other Judicature · 2025 Link to item Cite

Anti-Patents

Journal article University of Chicago Law Review · 2024 Link to item Cite

Partisan Panel Composition and Reliance on Earlier Opinions in the Circuit Courts

Journal article Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis · 2024 Link to item Cite

The Supreme Court's Reasoning Prohibits the Deplatforming Limits That the Parties Care About

Other Volokh Conspiracy · 2024 Cite

Donald Trump Promising a Position to RFK Jr. Isn't Illegal

Other Volokh Conspiracy · 2024 Cite

Internet and Telecommunication Regulation

Book · 2023 Link to item Cite

Internet and Telecommunications Regulation

Book · 2023 Cite

Twenty-First Century Split: Partisan, Racial, and Gender Differences in Circuit Judges Following Earlier Opinions

Journal article Brigham Young University Law Review · 2023 Link to item Cite

Ships Passing in the Night: The Communications Act and the Convergence on Broadband

Journal article Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2022 Link to item Cite

The First Amendment and Algorithms

Book section · 2021 Link to item Cite

The Paradoxical Impact of Scalia’s Campaign Against Legislative History

Journal article Cornell Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Judge Sentelle Smacks Down the Trump Administration

Other Volokh Conspiracy · 2020 Cite

President Trump's Executive Order on Regulatory Costs Imperils the Rest of His Regulatory Agenda

Judicial Retirements and the Staying Power of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

Journal article Journal of Empirical Legal Studies · 2016 Link to item Cite

Administrative Power in the Era of Patent Stare Decisis

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2016 Link to item Cite

Yes, Donald Trump Can Announce Whom He Would Appoint

Other Washington Post · 2016 Cite

Providing Internet Access Isn't Speech

Other Washington Post · 2016 Cite

The Opinions Justice Scalia Joined will Start Being Treated Worse, Even if He is Replaced by a Like-Minded Justice

Other Washington Post · 2016 Cite

D.C. Circuit Buries Supreme Court Precedent

Other Washington Post · 2016 Cite

Telecommunications Law and Policy

Book · 2015 Link to item Cite

FCC Net Neutrality Order -- Quick Turnaround for an Agency, Slow for Internet Time

Other Washington Post · 2015 Cite

Why Would a Trial Judge Make His Bias so Clear?

Other Washington Post · 2015 Cite

What Does Congress Mean by "Methodology"?

Other Washington Post · 2015 Cite

Q: "Do You Know of Any Case in Which We Have Halted a Proposed Rulemaking?" A: "I Do Not, Your Honor."

Other Washington Post · 2015 Cite

Common Sense and Key Questions

Journal article Harvard Law Review Forum · 2014 Link to item Cite

What was the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action Thinking?

Other Washington Post · 2014 Cite

If an Algorithm Generated this Post, is it First Amendment Speech?

Other Washington Post · 2014 Cite

On Net Neutrality, the FCC Says it has Heard Enough From the Courts, For Now

Other Washington Post · 2014 Cite

Calling FCC Authority a "Loophole" Assumes the Conclusion

Other Washington Post · 2014 Cite

Algorithms and Speech

Journal article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2013 Link to item Cite

Standing the Test of Time: The Breadth of Majority Coalitions and the Fate of U.S. Supreme Court Precedents

Journal article Journal of Legal Analysis · 2012 Link to item Cite

Bootstrapping

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2012 Link to item Cite

Transmitting, Editing, and Communicating: Determining What 'The Freedom of Speech' Encompasses

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2011 Link to item Cite

Structuring U.S. Innovation Policy: Creating a White House Office of Innovation Policy

Journal article · 2009 Link to item Cite

Roasting the Pig to Burn Down the House: A Modest Proposal

Journal article Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology · 2009 Link to item Cite

Mr. Presidential Candidate: Whom Would You Nominate?

Journal article Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

Mr. Presidential Candidate: Whom Would You Nominate?

Journal article Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

Tennis with the Net Down: Administrative Federalism Without Congress

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2008 Link to item Cite

Tennis with the Net Down: Administrative Federalism without Congress

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2008 Link to item Cite

Fixing Innovation Policy: A Structural Perspective

Journal article George Washington Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

Who's Afraid of the APA? What the Patent System Can Learn from Administrative Law

Journal article Georgetown Law Journal · 2007 Link to item Cite

In Appreciation: Katharine T. Bartlett

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2007 Link to item Cite

In Appreciation: Katharine T. Bartlett

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2007 Link to item Cite

Who's Afraid of the APA? What the Patent System Can Learn from Administrative Law

Journal article Georgetown Law Journal · 2007 Link to item Cite

Telecommunications Law and Policy

Book · 2006 Link to item Cite

Evaluating E-Rulemaking: Public Participation and Political Institutions

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2006 Link to item Cite

Evaluating the FCC's National Television Ownership Cap: What's Bad for Broadcasting Is Good for the Country

Journal article William & Mary Law Review · 2004 Link to item Cite

Spectrum Abundance and the Choice Between Private and Public Control

Journal article New York University Law Review · 2003 Link to item Cite

The Logic of Scarcity: Idle Spectrum as a First Amendment Violation

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2002 Link to item Cite

Telecommunications Law and Policy

Book · 2001 Link to item Cite

Proactive Legislation and the First Amendment

Journal article Michigan Law Review · 2000 Link to item Cite