Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression: March 30, 2023, 7pm
"The First Amendment Right of Academic Freedom"
Join us to hear from a leading voice on the topic of freedom of speech in America, University of Texas at Austin School of Law Professor David Rabban ’71.
Presented by The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life and moderated by Dean Demetrius Eudell.
Thursday, March 30, 2023, 7:00 pm, ET
Daniel Family Commons, and a Zoom Webinar
Usdan University Center, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT
Reception preceding the event at 6:00 pm, ET
This annual lecture is designed to bring to the Wesleyan Campus, public figures and scholars with experience and expertise in matters related to the First Amendment and freedom of expression. This lecture is endowed by Leonard S. Halpert ’44 (1922–2017), who believed that the First Amendment to the US Constitution is the basis upon which we enjoy all other Civil Rights. This lecture is named in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black.
David Rabban, '71, Bio
Professor David Rabban, Wesleyan class of 1971, served as counsel to the American Association of University Professors for several years before joining the Texas faculty in 1983. He served as General Counsel of the AAUP from 1998 to 2006 and Chair of its Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure from 2006 to 2012. His teaching and research focus on free speech, higher education and the law, and American legal history. He is best known for his path-breaking work on free speech in American history. He is the author of Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years, 1870- 1920 (Cambridge,1997) and Law's History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History. His many articles have appeared in Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review and elsewhere. He is currently working on a book about academic freedom and the First Amendment (Harvard University Press).
Professor David Rabban’s teaching and research focus on free speech, higher education and the law, and American legal history. He is best known for his path-breaking work on free speech in American history. He is the author of Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years, 1870- 1920 (Cambridge,1997) and Law's History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History. His many articles have appeared in Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review and elsewhere. He is currently working on a book about academic freedom and the First Amendment (Harvard University Press).
Hugo L. Black Lecturers 1991 - 2022
Keith Whittington Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University |
William Nelson |
Bertrall Ross |
Jelani Cobb |
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. |
Rodney Smolla |
Harry A. Blackmun |
Margaret Marshall |
Anthony Lewis |
Cass Sunstein |
Nadine Strossen |
Patricia Williams |
Abner Mikva |
Laurence H. Tribe |
Norman Dorsen |
Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethic Professor, Harvard Law School |
Patricia Wald |
Jack M. Balkin |
Floyd Abrahms |
Antonin Scalia |
Kathleen Sullivan |
Geoffrey R. Stone |
Nat Hentoff |
Aharon Barak |
Lee C. Bollinger |
Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law Dean, Yale Law School |
Anthony D. Romero
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The Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law Florida International University |
Linda Greenhouse
|
John Finn |