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Professor Costello teaches Research, Writing and Advocacy from an Intellectual Property Law Perspective and teaches student clinicians in the MSU First Amendment Law Clinic. She has also taught Media Law, Copyright Law, and Intellectual Property in the Internet Age. Before joining the law college she practiced in the area of commercial litigation, defamation law, ebusiness law and collections litigation for the law firm of Dickinson Wright PLLC in Detroit. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from Michigan State University, and earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law where she served as an editor of the Law Review and president of the Women's Law Caucus.

Before becoming an attorney, Professor Costello worked for 15 years as a journalist writing for the Detroit Free Press, the Associated Press, the Harvard University News Office, and news organizations in Seattle, Massachusetts, Ohio and New Hampshire. As a newspaper reporter she covered the Michigan state Legislature, former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, Dr. Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides, the assimilation of Southeast Asian refugees, 'Northern Exposure' doctors in the Alaskan outback, and the advent of Gorbachev's 'Perestroika' in the former Soviet Union.

Social Media Speech Law

First Amendment Speech/Press Law (NOT Religion)

First Amendment

Copyright

Student Speech/Press Law

Michigan State University Profile 

What the Vote?: Gen Z and free speech

MSU expert: Free speech and social media cases could shape future of media regulation

How 'man on the street' interviews are becoming more intrusive

Grassroots to Global: Expanding Your Clinic’s Impact by Going Online.

Exposure to the Bar, Bench and Law that You Love Can Happen as a 1L

Director of the First Amendment Clinic and Free Expression Online Library and Resource Center; Clinical Professor of Law

The LeFrak Forum's 31st Annual Program: Freedom of Speech and Intellectual Diversity on Campus, Day Two: Freedom of Speech, April 10, 2021

Panel Three: What is To Be Done?

Presenters: Nancy Costello, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, MSU; Jonathan Friedman, Director, Free Expression and Education at PEN America

Nancy Costello and Jonathan Friedman on what is to be done about freedom of speech in academia

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