Sonja R. West is an American legal scholar and writer working as the Otis Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law at University of Georgia.
She served as a law clerk for Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson in 1998 and 1999 and for Justice John Paul Stevens in 1999 and 2000.
She worked as an associate at Davis Wright Tremaine before joining the University of Alabama School of Law as a Hugo Black Faculty Fellow in 2004.
In 2006, West joined the University of Georgia School of Law as an associate professor.
She frequently authors op-ed columns on law and the media for The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN.com, and Slate.