Free Speech Week Event: Scrutinizing Universities’ Responses to the Campus Protests

Join leading experts on free speech and the First Amendment for an engaging and timely discussion on the recent campus protests relating to the war in Israel and Gaza. They will explore what universities, including the University of Texas, have done effectively, where they’ve fallen short, and the broader implications for First Amendment rights.

The full recording of this event can be found below.

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PANELISTS:

• Evelyn Douek: Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
• Mohammad Fadel: Professor & Former Canada Research Chair for the Law and Economics of Islamic Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law
• Jameel Jaffer: Executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
• Genevieve Lakier: Professor of Law, Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar at The University of Chicago Law School
• David Rabban: Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law Distinguished Teaching Professor at Texas Law
• Nadine Strossen: John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita at New York Law School; Former President of American Civil Liberties Union, 1991–2008; Senior Fellow at FIRE
• Eugene Volokh: Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University; Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at the UCLA School of Law
• Keith Whittington: David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School
• Steven Collis (Moderator): Director, Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and Director and Clinical Professor, Law and Religion Clinic at Texas Law