Samantha Harris is a founding partner at the firm of Allen Harris PLLC, where she concentrates her practice in the areas of campus discipline, Title IX, due process, and free speech.  Prior to founding Allen Harris, she spent 15 years at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), where she advised students, faculty, administrators, and attorneys on issues of free speech and due process on campus. She lectures regularly about student and faculty rights at campuses and conferences around the country, including at the Judicial Conferences of the Third and Fourth Circuits. Ms. Harris has been published in Inside Higher Ed, the New York Daily News, Reason, The Washington Post, Vox, and other publications, and has represented FIRE on ESPN, Fox News, NPR, and more.

Ms. Harris received her undergraduate degree in Politics from Princeton University in 1999 and went on to earn her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2002. She completed a judicial clerkship with the late Judge Jay C. Waldman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Bar Admissions:

Pennsylvania (2003)