Past Event RecordingsPanel on Academic Freedom feat. Richard Shweder and Adam Kissel
Richard Shweder is William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development at the University of Chicago. Adam Kissel, is Director, Individual Rights Defense Program at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. This panel was recorded on May 6, 2010 as part of a student-organized campus-wide Academic Freedom Symposium that was sponsored by (among others), the ACLU, ACS, and the Federalist Society. G. Stone, M. T. Henderson, & M. Redish, "Citizens United v Federal Election Commission: Campaign Finance & the First
Amendment"This debate was sponsored by ACS and the ACLU, and was recorded on 2/10/10. Geoffrey R. Stone is Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professorat the University of Chicago Law School. M. Todd Henderson is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Martin H. Redish is Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy at Northwestern University School of Law. Harvey Silverglate, "Three Felonies a Day"
Harvey Silverglate is of counsel to the Boston law firm of Zalkind, Rodriguez, Lunt & Duncan LLP, and is a practicing lawyer who specializes in criminal defense, civil liberties, and academic freedom/student rights law. This event was recorded on November 18, 2009 and was sponsored by the ACLU and the Criminal Law Society. Vic Walczak: "Stay Out: Hazleton at Trial and on Appeal"
Lozano v. Hazleton is the first legal challenge to a local anti-illegal-immigrant ordinance. The ordinance was struck down by a federal district court in 2007, and the case is currently on appeal in the Third Circuit. Witold "Vic" Walczak served as co-lead counsel in Lozano v. Hazleton, and has been the Legal Director for the ACLU-PA since 2004. Besides specializing in free-speech and religious-liberty cases, Vic has handled nationally significant cases involving challenges to widespread police misconduct, substandard public-defender services, and the Secret Service’s use of “protest zones” to shield former President Bush from demonstrators. In 2005, Vic was one of three lawyers who successfully tried Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the first case challenging the teaching in public schools of “intelligent design." This talk, which was recorded on February 23, 2008, was sponsored by the ACLU and introduced by Professor Adam Cox. Richard Posner and Geoffrey Stone: "Presidential Power in an Age of Terror: A Debate on NSA Wiretapping
"Richard Posner is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Geoffrey Stone is Harry Kalven, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. This debate was recorded January 31, 2006, and was moderated by Joseph Margulies, trial attorney and Lecturer at the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Chicago Law School. © 2006 The University of Chicago. | ACLU RSS Newsfeed |