Senior Counsel and Director
Alliance Defending Freedom
Tyson Langhofer serves as senior counsel and director of the Center for Academic Freedom with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) where he has represented college students and student organizations throughout the country in defending their freedom of speech, freedom of association and free exercise of religion. In Young America’s Foundation v. Covino, he successfully represented YAF, Ben Shapiro and California State University-Los Angeles students in a lawsuit against university administrators for First Amendment violations—when they allowed a mob of professors and students to physically block students from attending Shapiro’s scheduled speech on the campus. In Grace Christian Life v. Woodson, he successfully represented a religious student group at North Carolina State.
Langhofer has also worked as a commercial litigation attorney for 15 years and earned Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent® rating. Numerous media outlets have interviewed or featured Langhofer, including The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Townhall, The Federalist and The Daily Wire. He earned his Juris Doctor from Regent University School of Law and is a member of the bar in Kansas and Arizona, and admitted to practice in numerous federal district courts.