You're invited to our 2009 symposium: Cyberspeech!

UNC School of Law

FIRST AMENDMENT LAW REVIEW

presents its seventh annual symposium

 

Friday, Feb. 20, 2009

at the

UNC School of Law

Check-in at 9, Programs from 10-4:30


Keynote Speech by

Prof. Paul Jones

UNC Journalism Professor

Founder of Ibiblio.org!

 


FEATURING

Susan Brenner

NCR Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Dayton School of Law

 

Clay Calvert

Co-Director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment at the Penn State University,

John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies at the Penn State University College of Communications

 

Robert M. Frieden

Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunications and Law at the Penn State University

 

Leslie Harris

President and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology

 

Dawn C. Nunziato

Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School

 

John Palfrey

Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School

 

Robert Richards

Co-director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment at the Penn State University, Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Law at the Penn State University

 

Hannibal Travis

Professor of Law at the Florida International University College of Law

 

Alfred C. Yen

Professor of Law at the Boston College Law School

 

Admission is $40. UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty members, and staff members may attend for free, and students from other schools may attend for $5. A catered lunch will be included. Members of the N.C. State Bar will become eligible to earn Continuing Legal Education (CLE) hours by attending. Any NC attorney attending will receive 4.75 hours of CLE credit.


Past Symposia

  • 2003: Separation of Church and States: An Examination of State Constitutional Limits on Government Funding for Religious Institutions
  • 2004: Judicial Elections: The Campaign Reform Act and the North Carolina Experience
  • 2005: The First Amendment and Press Coverage of Elections in the United States
  • 2006: Religion in the Public Schools
  • 2007: No Strings Attached?: The First Amendment and Tax-Exempt Organizations
  • 2008: Public Citizens, Public Servants, and Free Speech in the Post-Garcetti Workplace


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