Albert Theodore Schroeder (September 17, 1864 – February 10, 1953) was an American author who wrote on issues pertaining to freedom of expression.

Schroeder entered the University of Wisconsin in 1882 to study engineering and earned a law degree in 1889.

In 1902, he formed the Free Speech League, a precursor to the American Civil Liberties Union, with Lincoln Steffens and others.

[1] When upholding a lower court's decision, Judge O'Sullivan of the Connecticut Supreme Court stated in a unanimous three-judge opinion: The law will not declare a trust valid when the object of the trust, as the finding discloses, is to distribute articles which reek of the sewer.

The very enumeration of some of the titles which Schroeder selected for his writings brands them indelibly, and a reading of the article which he called "Prenatal Psychisms and Mystical Pantheism" is a truly nauseating experience in the field of pornography.