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 SMU Dedman School of Law. Before coming to SMU, 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

Media

Fort Worth Report, quoted in Groups plan to protest at True Texas Project event (July 2024)