The NCC’s 2024 National First Amendment Summit

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

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This week, the National Constitution Center convened the 2024 National First Amendment Summit, in partnership with FIRE and NYU’s First Amendment Watch. America’s leading legal thinkers joined for a vigorous discussion on the state of free speech in America and around the globe. “Free Speech on Campus Today” features Mary Anne Franks, author of the new book Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment; FIRE’s Vice President of Campus Advocacy Alex Morey; and Keith Whittington, author of You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms. “Free Speech In and Out of the Courts” features Nadine Strossen, author of Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know; Jonathan Turley, author of the new book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage; and Kenji Yoshino of NYU School of Law and Meta's Oversight Board. Resources: 2024 National First Amendment Summit FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression NYU’s First Amendment Watch Mary Ann Franks, Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment (2024) Keith Whittington, You Can’t Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms (2024) Nadine Strossen, Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (2023) Jonathan Turley, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage (2024) Meta Oversight Board Stay Connected and Learn More Questions or comments about the show? Email us at [email protected] Continue the conversation by following us on social media @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate. Subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen. Join us for an upcoming live program or watch recordings on YouTube. Support our important work. Donate

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0:00.0	This week the National Constitution Center convened the 2024 National First Amendment Summit
0:06.1	in partnership with Fire and NYU's First Amendment Watch.
0:09.9	We convened a great group of diverse scholars for a vigorous conversation about the state of free speech in America and around the world.
0:18.0	Hello friends, I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:28.0	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit, chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:38.0	This episode features two conversations from the summit, free speech on campus, and free speech in and out of the courts.
0:45.0	Enjoy the show.
0:47.0	Friends, it is an honor to welcome this extraordinary group of scholars to discuss the topic of our
0:56.5	first panel which is free speech on campus. We all know that this is an anxious time for campus speech as it is for speech in general
1:08.1	and I can't think of three deeper and more thoughtful scholars to cast light on our current vexations
1:15.6	than our panelists today. Let me introduce them and then we'll jump right in.
1:21.3	Marianne Franks, to my right, is Eugene L.
1:27.8	and Barbara A Bernard Professor,
1:29.7	intellectual property, technology, and civil rights law at George Washington University Law School.
1:36.0	She's the author of the new book Fearless Speech, Breaking Free from the First Amendment.
1:41.8	She's my great colleague at GW Law School,
1:44.1	and we're also honored to welcome a good GW contingent
1:47.6	today to cheer her and Professor Jonathan Turley on.
1:52.3	Alex Morrie is Vice President of Campus Advocacy at Fire,
1:56.5	where she leads the Campus Rights Advocacy Program.
1:59.3	She is also a member of the First Amendment Lawyers Association, and we're so grateful for the partnership
2:04.8	with fire.
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