The topic, “Free Speech on Campus and Academic Freedom in the Trump Era,” addressed important First Amendment issues facing educators and students.
The talk was held in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, East Building (239 Greene Street), 3rd floor, on Monday, April 30, 4:30-6:15. The nearly three dozen attendees asked a wide range of questions to that delved into important campus freedom of speech issues.
FAW’s Stephen Solomon also introduced First Amendment Watch and its use in the classroom.
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Robert Post is a Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and served as the
School’s 16th dean, from 2009 until 2017. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. Post’s subject areas are constitutional law, First Amendment, legal history, and equal protection. He has written and edited numerous books, including Citizens Divided: A Constitutional Theory of Campaign Finance Reform (2014), which was originally delivered as the Tanner Lectures at Harvard in 2013. Other books include, Democracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State (2012); For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (with Matthew M. Finkin, 2009); Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law (with K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Thomas C. Grey & Reva Siegel, 2001); and Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management (1995).
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