Eugene Volokh | Free Speech Law, Civil Rights, Social Progress, and Minority Groups

Tuesday, MarchÌý12
5 - 6:15 pm MT
Wolf Law Wittemyer CourtroomÌý| 2450 Kittredge Loop Dr. Boulder, CO
LivestreamÌýand in-person
Moderated by Todd Zywicki, VSCTP fall 2023
91³Ô¹ÏÍø the Event
Todd Zywicki (VSCTP, fall 2023) is back for a conversation with Eugene Volokh. Come hear them discuss how civil rights movements and minority groups more generally benefit from free speech.
This event is co-sponsored byÌý. Voices of Liberty supports campus events that engage undergraduate students in discussion about free speech and civil rights. Voices for Liberty speakers and campus partners ask students to consider historic and contemporary ways in which free speech has, or can, drive civil and social progress in critical areas like censorship, marginalization, and racial conflict. They also run occasional public symposia and webinars on emerging research in this area.
91³Ô¹ÏÍø the Speaker
Eugene Volokh teaches First Amendment law, a First Amendment amicus brief clinic, an intensive editing workshop, and business torts at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. Starting May 2024, he will be a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution (where he is currently a Visiting Fellow). Volokh is t