14 Sep 2016
On Tuesday, September 27th from 12:10-1:15 p.m., the 2016 Lane Lecture will feature Professor Eugene Volokh presenting "Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in American Universities".
Are freedom of speech and academic freedom in real danger at modern American universities? What are the legal rules protecting campus speech, and the limits on those rules? This lecture will canvass the subject in detail.
Professor Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. Volokh teaches free speech law, tort law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law, and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.