Donald Downs

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Donald Alexander Downs is an American political science professor and known for his work on the First Amendment.

Downs has political science degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. from the University of California - Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame and currently teaches political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Downs has written many scholary articles and books on the First Amendment and various legally themed books.

Downs is a co-founder of the academic freedom centered group, CAFAR. The group's mission is to protect and advance academic freedom rights on campus and beyond.

[edit] Key Scholarly Works

Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment

The New Politics of Pornography

More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law

Cornell `69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University

Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus