Biography of Jay Dyckman
Jay Dyckman directs The Knowledge Project at the National Coalition Against Censorship, a program that examines the clash between First Amendment principles of free expression and government suppression or distortion of scientific information. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. Upon graduation, he clerked for a federal judge and then spent five years as a litigation associate for two New York law firms.
As part of his work for The Knowledge Project, Mr. Dyckman works extensively with other groups and organizations with an interest in the integrity of science or the relationship between science and intellectual freedom. He is a member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Science and Law. He has organized and moderated panel presentations on this topic, including for the Free Expression Network, a group composed of the nation's major free expression advocates who meet quarterly to discuss important First Amendment issues. He has also partnered with the Government Accountability Project on a report chronicling free speech abuses at various federal science agencies, with a focus on the deficient public affairs/media guideline policies. He has also written op-eds on this topic, including one in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about the censorship of abstinence-only opponents at a health conference sponsored by the CDC and one in the Legal Times addressing the recent Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA (links set forth below).
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