Every year the First Amendment Law Review hosts a symposium for First Amendment scholars from around the country to discuss and debate different First Amendment issues. Past issue themes include Fake News, Free Speech and Higher Education, and Net Neutrality and the First Amendment.
2017: Distorting the Truth: “Fake News” & Free Speech
- Keynote Speaker: Angie Drobnic Holan, Editor, Politifact
- Panelists:
- Clay Calvert, Professor and Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
- Ashley Messenger, Senior Associate General Counsel, NPR
- Richard L. Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine
- David Han, Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law
- Michael Curtis, Judge Donald Smith Professor of Constitutional and Public Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
- Helen Norton, Professor and Ira C. Rothgerber Chair in Constitutional Law, University of Colorado Law School
- Lili Levi, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law
- Catherine J. Ross, Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor, George Washington University School of Law
- Joseph Blocher, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
- Sonja R. West, Otis Brumby Distinguished Professor of First Amendment Law, University of Georgia School of Law
- Deen Freelon, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism
- Emily Thorson, Associate Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
- Derek Bambauer, Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law
- Moderators:
- Bill Marshall, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Mary-Rose Papandrea, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Moderated by: David S. Ardia, Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Media Law and Policy, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Panelists:
2016: The First Amendment Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia
- Keynote Speaker: Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton
- Panelists:
- Mary-Rose Papandrea, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, University of Florida Levin College of Law
- Michael Gerhardt, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Timothy Zick, William and Mary Law School
- Ashutosh Bhagwat, University of California-Davis School of Law
- Caroline Mala Corbin, University of Miami School of Law
- Guy-Uriel Charles, Duke University Law School
- RonNell Andersen Jones, University of Utah College of Law
- John Inazu, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
- Moderators:
- William Marshall, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Richard Myers, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Panelists:
2015: Free Speech in Higher Education
- Keynote Speaker: Robert Shibley, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- Panelists:
- Jeffrey Hirsch, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Robert O’Neil, University of Virginia School of Law
- Jenna Robinson, Pope Center for Higher Education
- Vikram Amar, University of Illinois College of Law
- Joseph Blocher, Duke University School of Law
- Heidi Kitrosser, University of Minnesota Law School
- Aaron Caplan, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- Thomas Healy, Seton Hall University School of Law
- Rod Smolla, Widener University Delaware Law School
- Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University School of Law, Chicago
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- For more on the 2015 symposia, please see the flyer here.
2014: Net Neutrality and the First Amendment
2013: Legacy of New York Times v. Sullivan
2012: Hazelwood: A 25-Year Retrospective on Student First Amendment Rights
2011: Discrimination By, For, and Against Religion
2010: Citizens United
2009: Sexually Explicit Speech and the First Amendment
2008: Cyberspeech!
2007: Public Citizens, Public Servants, and Free Speech in the Post-Garcetti Workplace