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Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference 3 (2015)

Saturday, May 2, 2015 - 8:15am to Sunday, May 3, 2015 - 5:15pm

Yale Law School
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520

The Information Society Project at Yale Law School will host the third Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference (FESC) at Yale Law School on May 2-3, 2014. The FESC is co-sponsored by the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression and Thomson Reuters.

The conference brings scholars together to discuss their works-in-progress concerning freedom of speech, expression, press, association, petition, assembly, and related issues of knowledge and information policy.  Now in its third year, the FESC has become a fixture on the calendar of leading First Amendment thinkers nationwide and is the premier annual gathering of First Amendment scholars in the United States.  As in past years, well over 50 leading First Amendment scholars and practitioners will be in attendance this year.

The conference offers participants an opportunity to receive substantive feedback through group discussion. Each paper is assigned a discussant, who leads a discussion and provides feedback to the author. Participants will be expected to read papers in advance, and to attend the entire conference.  Workshop sessions are typically lively discussions between and among authors, discussants, and participants.  While anyone is welcome to apply to participate in the conference, attendance is by invitation only.

Agenda

The basic workshop format will be as follow: The discussant (not the author) will present the paper to the group and provide initial comments (no more than 10 minutes). The author may choose to respond at that point (no more than 5 minutes), and then the workshop will proceed into a roundtable discussion moderated by the discussant.

The expectation is that all workshop participants will have read the paper beforehand.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Registration - Room 122

8:30 am - 9:00 am — Breakfast – Dining Hall

9:00 am - 9:15 am — Welcome & Introduction – Dining Hall

9:15 am - 10:30 am — First Session (Breakout Session)

Alex Tsesis

Balancing Free Speech

Discussant:

Step Feldman

Room 120

Josh Blackman

Collective Liberty

Discussant:

Kiel Brennen-

Marquez

Room 121

Renee Knake

Competition, Capture, Commercial Speech, and the Courts

Discussant:

BJ Ard

Room 128

Brian Soucek

Aesthetic Judgment in Law

Discussant:

Kate Klonick

Room 129

11:00 am - 12:15 pm — Second Session (Breakout Session)

Sonja West

“The Press” Then and Now

Discussant:

RonNell Anderson Jones

Room 120

Ashutosh Bhagwat

Who’s Afraid of Content Regulation

Discussant:

Lauren Henry

Room 121

Andrew Tutt

On the Regulation of Speech Contracts

Discussant:

Ariel Bendor

Room 128

Enrique Armijo

The “Ample Alternative Channels” Mistake in First Amendment Doctrine

Discussant:

Kerry Monroe

Room 129

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm — Lunch (Dining Hall)

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm — Third Session (Plenary Panel)

ick Hasen

Money, Politics and the Decline of American Democracy

Moderator:

Jack Balkin

Room 129

Tabatha Abu El-Haj

Having a Different Conversation about Money and Politics

3:30pm - 4:45pm — Fourth Session (Breakout Session)

Malvika Maheshwari

Artistic Speech in the Indian Courts: Law and the Production of Violence

Discussant:

Helen Norton

Room 120

Sarah Haan

Mosaic Disclosure, the Firm, and the First Amendment

Discussant:

David Blankfein-

Tabachnick

Room 121

Caroline Corbin

Speech or Conduct? The Cake Wars

Discussant:

David Han

Room 128

Maggie McKinley

Lobbying and the Petition Clause

Discussant:

Heidi Kitrosser

Room 129

5:15 pm - 6:30 pm — Fifth Session (Breakout Session)

eidi Kitrosser

The Special Value of Public Employee Speech

Discussant:

Jonathan Manes

Room 121

Step Feldman

Reimagining Free Expression in the Digital Age: A Self-Emergence Rationale (With an Emphasis on Net Neutrality)

Discussant:

Alex Tsesis

Room 128

Stefanus Hendrianto

Hamlet with the Prince: Religious Speech as High Value Speech in the Culture Wars

Discussant:

Caroline Corbin

Room 129

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm — Dinner

Sunday, May 3, 2015

8:30 am - 9:00 am — Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:15 am — Sixth Session (Breakout Session)

Michael Froomkin

Lessons Learned too Well: Anonymity in a Time of Surveillance

Discussant:

Christina Mulligan

Room 121

Tamara Piety

Killing the Golden Goose: Will Blended Advertising and Editorial Content Kill Both

Discussant:

Roy Peled

Room 128

Aleksandra Gliszczynska / Dominika Bychawska-Siniarska

Nazi Songs, Extremist Books, and Fascist Insignia on Sale: Case Study of Allegro in Poland

Discussant:

Adam Lamparello

Room 129

10:45am – 12:00 pm — Seventh Session (Breakout Session)

Vince Blasi

The Classic Arguments for Free Speech: Milton

Discussant:

Thomas Healy

Room 121

Greg Magarian

Speakers, Cornered: The Roberts Court in the Public Forum

Discussant:

Mark Tushnet

Room 128

Hannah Bloch-Wehba

Beyond Standing: How National Security Surveillance Undermines the Reporters Privilege and a Free Press

Discussant:

Colin Agur

Room 129

12:15 pm - 2:00 pm — Eighth Session (Lunchtime Plenary Panel)

Margot Kaminski

The Right to Record and How it Interferes with Information Gathering Laws

Moderator:

Neil Richards

Room 127

Alan Chen and Justin Marceau

Video Image Capture, Democracy and the First Amendment

Marc Blitz, Stephen Henderson, and Joseph Thai

Regulating Drones Under the First Amendment

2:15 pm - 3:30 pm — Ninth Session (Breakout Session)

Mark Tushnet

The Distinction Between First Amendment Coverage and First Amendment Protection, and its Significance

Discussant:

Sarah Haan

Room 121

BJ Ard

Zero-Rating: Toward a Purposive Approach to Network Neutrality

Discussant:

Deven Desai

Room

Jonathan Manes

Secret Law

Discussant:

Andrew Selbst

Room 128

Amanda Shanor

The New Lochner

Discussant:

Vince Blasi

Room 129

FESC 3 Participants

FloydAbramsPartnerCahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
TabathaAbu El-HajAssociate Professor of LawDrexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
ColinAgurResident Fellow, ISPYale Law School
RonNellAnderson JonesProfessor of LawBYU Law School
BJArdPhD Candidate and Resident Fellow, ISPYale Law School
EnriqueArmijoAssistant Professor of LawElon University School of LAw
JackBalkinKnight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First AmendmentYale Law School
SandraBaronSenior Fellow, Abrams Institute for Freedom of ExpressionYale Law School
ArielBendorDistinguished Visiting Professor and Professor of LawUniversity of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law
AshutoshBhagwatProfessor of LawUC Davis School of Law
JoshBlackmanAssistant Professor of LawSouth Texas College of Law
DavidBlankfein-TabachnikAssistant Professor of LawMichigan State University College of Law
VinceBlasiCorliss Lamont Professor of Civil LibertiesColumbia Law School
MarcBlitzProfessor of LawOklahoma City University School of Law
HannahBloch-WehbaStanton FellowReporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
KielBrennan-Marquez Law Clerk
SusanBuckleyPartnerCahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
DominikaBychawska-SiniarskaPhD CandidatePolish Academy of Sciences
AlanChenWilliam M. Beaney Memorial Research Chair and ProfessorUniversity of Denver Sturm College of Law
Caroline MalaCorbinProfessor of LawUniversity of Miami School of Law
RobertCorn-ReverePartnerDavis Wright Tremaine LLP
DevenDesaiAssociate ProfessorGeorgia Tech Scheller College of Business
StephenFeldmanJerry W. Housel / Carl F. Arnold Distinguished Professor of LawUniversity of Wyoming College of Law
MichaelFroomkinLaurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of LawUniversity of Miami School of Law
AleksandraGliszczynska-GrabiasSenior ResearcherPoznan Human Rights Centre, Institute of Legal Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
SarahHaanAssociate Professor of LawUniversity of Idaho College of Law
DavidHanAssociate Professor of LawPepperdine University School of Law
RickHasenChancellor's Professor of Law and Political ScienceUC Irvine School of Law
ThomasHealyProfessor of LawSeton Hall University School of Law
StephenHendersonProfessor of LawUniversity of Oklahoma College of Law
StefanusHendriantoVisiting Lecturer in LawSanta Clara University School of Law
LaurenHenryResident Fellow, ISPYale Law School
MargotKaminskiAssistant ProfessorOhio State University Moritz College of Law
HeidiKitrosserProfessor of LawUniversity of Minnesota Law School
KateKlonickResident Fellow, ISPYale Law School
ReneeKnakeProfessor of Law and Foster Swift Professor of Legal EthicsMichigan State University College of Law
AdamLamparelloAssistant Professor of LawIndiana Tech Law School
GregoryMagarianProfessor of LawWashington University School of Law
MalvikaMaheshwariAssistant Professor of Political ScienceAshoka Univesrsity
JonathanManesAbrams Clinical Fellow and Clinical Lecturer in LawYale Law School
JustinMarceauAssociate Professor of LawUniversity of Denver Sturm College of Law
MaggieMcKinleyClimenko Fellow and Lecturer on LawHarvard Law School
KerryMonroePhD Candidate and Resident Fellow, ISPYale Law School
ChristinaMulliganAssistant Professor of LawBrooklyn Law School
HelenNortonAssociate Professor of LawUniversity of Colorado Law School
RoyPeledJSD CandidateTel-Aviv University Law School
TamaraPietySenior Research Scholar and Phyllis Hurley Frey Professor of LawYale Law School & University of Tulsa Law School
NeilRichardsProfessor of LawWashington University School of Law
DeanRingelPartnerCahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
David A.SchulzClinical Lecturer in Law and PartnerYale Law School and Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz LLP
AndrewSelbst Law Clerk
AmandaShanorPhD Candidate and Resident Fellow, ISPYale Law School
Charles S.SimsPartnerProskauer Rose LLP
Paul M.SmithPartnerJenner & Block LLP
BrianSoucekActing Professor of LawUC Davis School of Law
JosephThaiPresidential Professor of LawUniversity of Oklahoma College of Law
AlexanderTsesisProfessor of LawLoyola University Chicago School of Law
MarkTushnetWilliam Nelson Cromwell Professor of LawHarvard Law School
AndrewTutt Law Clerk
SonjaWestAssociate Professor of LawUniversity of Georgia School of Law