The Institute for Free Speech is pleased to announce that First Amendment Fellow Nathan Ristuccia has joined the full-time staff as an attorney.

“Nathan’s impressive and wide-ranging skill set has been a welcome addition to our legal staff over the past few months,” said Institute President David Keating. “We look forward to his continued contributions to our legal department.”

Nathan joined the Institute as a First Amendment Fellow in September 2023.  He began his legal career as a clerk for the Hon. Victor J. Wolski, Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Prior to entering law, Nathan worked as a historian at the University of Chicago.  He is the author of more than a dozen scholarly articles and an award-winning book: Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe: A Ritual Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2018).

In 2022, Nathan graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an Articles Editor for the Georgetown Law Journal and a Bradley Fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.  He received the Francis E. Lucey, S.J. Award, presented annually to the student with the highest academic achievement in the graduating class.  Nathan earned his Ph.D. and M.M.S. from the University of Notre Dame and his B.A. from Princeton University.

He is admitted to the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Most recently, Nathan’s article “‘Dangerous to the Liberties of a Free People’: Secret Societies and the Right to Assemble” was published in the Journal of Free Speech Law.

Please join us in congratulating Nathan on his new role.