Josh Hammer is the senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, where he hosts "The Josh Hammer Show" podcast and syndicated radio show. A syndicated columnist through Creators Syndicate, Josh also hosts the "America on Trial with Josh Hammer" podcast for The First. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal, and cultural issues, Josh is also a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, a fellow with the Palm Beach Freedom Institute, and counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project.
An outspoken conservative, Josh opines on conservative intellectual trends, contemporary domestic and foreign policy debates, constitutional and legal issues, and the intersection of law, politics and culture. He has been published by many leading outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Daily Mail, Newsweek, National Affairs, American Affairs, The New Criterion, The National Interest, National Review, RealClearPolitics, First Things, City Journal, Public Discourse, Law & Liberty, Tablet Magazine, Deseret Magazine, Compact Magazine, Chronicles Magazine, The Spectator, The American Mind, The American Conservative, The European Conservative, American Greatness, American Compass, The Federalist, Blaze Media, Townhall, The Daily Wire, The Daily Signal, The Daily Caller, The Epoch Times, Fortune, Fox Business, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The Forward, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Jewish Journal. He has also had legal scholarship published by the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and the University of St. Thomas Law Journal.
Josh is a college campus speaker through Young America's Foundation and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and a law school campus speaker through the Federalist Society. Prior to Newsweek and The Daily Wire, where he was an editor, Josh worked at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and clerked for the Hon. James C. Ho on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Josh has also served as a John Marshall Fellow with the Claremont Institute and as a Fellow with the James Wilson Institute.
Josh graduated from Duke University, where he majored in economics, and from the University of Chicago Law School. He lives in Florida, but remains an active member of the State Bar of Texas.
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Regulating the Big Tech Behemoths
Tampa Bay Lawyers Chapter
Shutts & Bowen (Second Floor reception space)4301 West Boy Scout Blvd., Suite 300
Tampa, FL 33607
Israel, Jihad, and the Law of War feat. Josh Hammer
Columbus Lawyers Chapter
The Athletic Club of Columbus - Crystal Room, 2nd Floor136 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215
The Value of Constitutional Colorblindness
St. Louis Student Chapter
Saint Louis University School of Law100 N. Tucker Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63101
A Conversation with Josh Hammer
Colorado Lawyers Chapter
Maggiano's Downtown500 16th Street Mall
Denver, CO 80202
Fighting the Big Tech Menace
Wyoming Student Chapter
University of Wyoming, College of Law1000 E University Ave Dept 3035
Laramie, WY 82071
Debating Common Good Originalism's Place in American Legal Thought
Texas Student Chapter
University of Texas School of Law727 E Dean Keeton St
Austin, TX 78705
Panel Three: Critical Race Theory in K-12 Public Schools
2022 Missouri Chapters Conference
The 2022 Missouri Chapters Conference took place on January 24, 2022, at the Missouri State...
Panel Three: Critical Race Theory in K-12 Public Schools
2022 Missouri Chapters Conference
The 2022 Missouri Chapters Conference took place on January 24, 2022, at the Missouri State...
Classrooms, Curricula, and the Law
2021 National Lawyers Convention
The 2021 National Lawyers Convention took place November 11-13, 2021 at the Mayflower Hotel in...
Classrooms, Curricula, and the Law
2021 National Lawyers Convention
The 2021 National Lawyers Convention took place November 11-13, 2021 at the Mayflower Hotel in...
The Future of Section 230
DC Young Lawyers Chapter - Online Event
On March 30, 2021, the Federalist Society's DC Young Lawyers Chapter and the Regulatory Transparency...