Professor Gora, a long-standing advocate for civil liberties, has been involved in
numerous cases in the Supreme Court and other courts dealing with free speech and other
civil liberties issues. Since 1981, he has served as General Counsel for the New York
Civil Liberties Union, and is a member of its board. He has authored numerous texts on
civil rights and free expression, including The Right to Protest (1991). His special
expertise is in the area of first amendment rights, and he has written and lectured on
campaign finance issues for more than 25 years. He was one of the plaintiffs'
lawyers in the landmark campaign finance case of Buckley v. Valeo. He is a frequent
participant in programs that address public policy concerns in campaign finance reform,
has testified before Congress on the issue, and has published extensively in this area.
He served on the Special Campaign Finance Commission of the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, and he co-authored the principal dissent from the Commission’s report.
He currently serves on the Election Law Committee of the Association. Prior to joining
the faculty in 1978, he was National Staff Counsel and Associate Legal Director with the
American Civil Liberties Union, and served as Pro Se Law Clerk to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also served as the Law School’s Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs from 1993 to 1997 and again from 2002 to 2007.

Articles

The Source of the Problem of Sources: The First Amendment Fails the Fourth Estate, Cardozo Law Review (2008)
 

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First Amendment Cases in the Supreme Court 2005 Term [Supreme Court Review Symposium], 22 Touro L. Rev. 917 (2007)
 

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First Amendment Cases in the October 2004 Term [Symposium: Seventeenth Annual Supreme Court Review Program], 21 Touro L. Rev. 849 (2006)
 

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2003-2004 Supreme Court Term: Another Losing Season for the First Amendment [Symposium: Sixteenth Annual Supreme Court Review Program], 20 Touro L. Rev. 803 (2005)
 

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First Amendment Decisions – 2002 Term [Symposium: The Fifteenth Annual Supreme Court Review], 20 Touro L. Rev. 251 (2004)
 

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Books

The Right to Protest: The Basic ACLU Guide to Free Expression (with D. Goldberger, G. Stern , and M. Halperin) (1991)
 
Emerson, Haber and Dorsen's Political and Civil Rights in the United States (Supp. 1982) (with Norman Dorsen, Paul Bender, and Burt Neuborne) (1982)
 
Emerson, Haber and Dorsen's Political and Civil Rights in the United States (Supp. 1980) (with Norman Dorsen, Paul Bender, and Burt Neuborne) (1980)
 
Due Process of Law (1977)
 
The Rights of Reporters: The Basic ACLU Guide to a Reporter's Rights (1974)
 

Contributions to Books

Campaign Finance Reform, No. 1021, Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006)
 
Dollars and Sense: In Praise of Buckley v. Valeo, Superintending Democracy: The Courts and the Political Process (2001)
 
Communication Decency Act, 110 Stat. 56 (1996, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (2000)
 
'Must Carry' Law, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (2000)
 
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC, 512 U.S. 622 (1994), Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (2000)
 

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Other

Campaign Finance and the Plight of First Amendment Regulation, CLE presentation, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2004)
 
Money and Politics: A Response," 1983 Bienniel Conference of the American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, D.C. (1983)