Olivia E. Gross

Olivia Eve Gross is the Founder and CEO of High School Law Review, a civics education program that uses constitutional law to teach students how to engage constructively, write persuasively, and disagree agreeably. Through legal writing, debate, and publication, students develop critical thinking and civic leadership skills. All student work is published on HSLR’s digital platform, with top submissions featured in local, state, and national law reviews.

Olivia holds a B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago, where she studied Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, a great books curriculum centered on enduring questions. Her academic work focused on Plato’s Gorgias and the question, “How do we agreeably disagree?” She also holds an M.A. in International Relations, with a concentration on the commodification of social norms. Olivia is a published author on issues related to academic freedom, free speech, and how environments can be created to foster agreeable disagreement.