Education

  • B.A., SUNY Geneseo
  • J.D., William & Mary Law School

Research Interests

  • National Security Law
  • First Amendment
  • Production of Legal Scholarship

About

Noah Chauvin is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.  He writes and teaches in the area of First Amendment law, surveillance law, and the production of legal scholarship.  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American University Law Review, the University of Richmond Law Review, and the California Law Review Online, among others.  

Prior to joining the College of Law, Professor Chauvin was on the faculty at the Widener University Commonwealth Law School. He also served as a counsel in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice and an attorney-adviser in the Intelligence Law Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of the General Counsel.  

Professor Chauvin earned his J.D., summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, from William & Mary Law School, after which he clerked for the Honorable Thomas C. Wheeler of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the Honorable Karen Spencer Marston of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He receivedhis BA in biology and English literature from SUNY Geneseo. 

Additional Information

J.D.: 

  • National Security Lawyering 6100

The Unconstitutional Attempt to Criminalize Naming ICE Agents, 73 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse (forthcoming 2026).

Increasing Congressional Oversight of FISA Section 702 after RISAA, 92 Tenn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).

Confessions of a National Security Lawyer, 86 Ohio St. L.J. Online 1 (2025).

Foreign Influence and the Immorality of Censorship, 25-06 Knight First Amend. Inst. (Feb. 18, 2025).

The Warrant Exception that Isn't: FISA Section 702, "Defensive" Searches, and the Fourth Amendment, 74 Am. U. L. Rev. 563 (2025).

Against Gap-Filling, 2024 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 1.

Replacing Tinker, 56 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1135 (2022).

Enough Is as Good as a Feast, 44 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1 (2020).