Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor, will present the 2016 Lane Lecture – “Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in American Universities” – at 12:10 p.m. Sept. 27 at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
Are freedom of speech and academic freedom in real danger at modern American universities? What are the legal rules protecting campus speech and the limits on those rules? This lecture will canvass the subject in detail.
Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He teaches free speech law, tort law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic. He has also often taught copyright law, criminal law and a seminar on firearms regulation policy.
Before joining the faculty at UCLA, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
