Morgan Weiland
Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Assistant Professor of Communication Law Boston University College of Communication; By Courtesy, Boston University School of Law
Morgan N. Weiland is the Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Assistant Professor of Communication Law in the College of Communication at Boston University and holds a courtesy appointment at Boston University School of Law. She is an Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society and an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. Her research and teaching explore the intersection of new media technologies, communication history, and information policy through an interdisciplinary lens.
Her dissertation, Making Internet Law: How Cyberspace Was Socially Constructed as a First Amendment Speech System, explains how we ended up with a system in which private, for-profit social media firms have power over—but not responsibility for—public speech. This work, which she is turning into a book, won the Best Dissertation Award from the Philosophy, Theory and Critique division of the International Communication Association in 2026.