Free Speech Dialogues: About the Series
While nearly everyone on a university campus would profess devotion to free speech, people tend to mean differing things by that term and disagree about the exact contours of speech's proper protection. The Free Speech Dialogues were created in order to generate thoughtful, informed discussion of free speech controversies among students. Each semester, a dialogue presents a panel of three speakers offering varying points on a specific free speech battleground.
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Upcoming Free Speech Dialogues:
Spring 2013 - on sabbatical
Fall 2013 - Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 7pm
Artistic Expression and Freedom of Speech
- Nora Gilbert
- Daniel Jacobson
- Greg Lukianoff
Previous Dialogues:
Free Speech and Intellectual Property
- Neil Netanel, UCLA Law School
- Adam Mossoff, George Mason Law School
- Robert Levine, Author
Press Freedom and the Publication of Government Secrets
- Linda Greenhouse, Yale Law School and the New York Times
- Jack Shafer, Rueters
- Michael Kent Curtis, Wake Forest Law School
- Nadine Strossen, Former President of the ACLU
- Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University School of Law
- John Burnett, NPR Correspondent
- Burt Neuborne, NYU School of Law
- Steve Simpson, Institute for Justice
- Adam Liptak, Journalist for the New York Times
Free Speech... Let's Talk About It.
"If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washington, Address to officers of the Army (15 March 1783)
