Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference 2025
Conference date: April 25 – 26, 2025
Schedule
Friday
8:30 am: Breakfast - Dining Hall/Registration - Room 122
9-10 am: Breakout Session 1
The Most-Favored-Nation Press Clause, by Tim Tai || Discussant: Erin Carroll Room 128
Brokering Safety, by Chinmayi Sharma, Thomas Kadri, and Sam Adler || Discussant: Ariana Aboulafia Room 129
The Demand for Bullshit and the Improbable Legal Responses, by Lila Greenberg & Jane Bambauer || Discussant: Janet Freilich Room 120
10 am: Break - Room 122
10:15-11:15 am: Breakout Session 2
A First Amendment Realignment, by Nelson Tebbe || Discussant: Alan Chen Room 129
Information Law for an Information Economy, by Hannah Bloch-Wehba || Discussant: David Han Room 120
Protest Violence, by Gregory Day || Discussant: Eric M. Freedman Room 111
Future Proofing Content Moderation for Democracy, by Niva Elkin-Koren || Discussant: Paolo Tamase Room 128
11:30 am-12:30 pm: Breakout Session 3
Free Speech and Data Privacy, by Margot Kaminski || Discussant: George Wang Room 128
Inevitable Errors, Avoidable Harm? Defamation by Hallucination in AI Reasoning Models by Lyrissa Lidsky and Drew Daves || Discussant: Jorge Gaxiola Room 120
The Enigma of Gitlow: Positivism, Liberty, Democracy, and Freedom of Speech, by Robert Post || Discussant: Alexander Tsesis Room 129
12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch - Dining Hall
1:30 pm-3:00 pm: Plenary Session 1 - Room 129
- Foreign Platforms and Public Discourse, by Chinmayi Arun, Contesting National Security in Geopolitical Rivalry, by Ji Ma, and Listeners’ Rights in the Time of Propaganda: The Story of Lamont v. Postmaster General, by George Wang || Moderator: Stacy Livingston
3:00 pm: Break
3:15-4:15 pm: Breakout Session 4
Conflicts of Speech Rights in School, by Francesca Procaccini || Discussant Ashutosh Bhagwat Room 120
Dignity, Free Speech, and Algorithmic Machines, by Alexander Tsesis || Discussant: Inyoung Cheong Room 129
Privacy, Surveillance, and Academic Freedom, by Anil Kalhan || Discussant: Franciska Coleman Room 128
4:30-5:30 pm: Breakout Session 5
Expressive Association at Work, by Elizabeth Sepper, James D. Nelson, and Charlotte Garden || Discussant: James Eisler Room 128
The National Security State Goes to School: Sourcing Stories of and About Guantanamo in United States Higher Education, by Muira McCammon || Discussant: Hannah Bloch-Wehba Room 120
Abandoning Press Freedom, by RonNell Andersen-Jones & Sonja West || Discussant: Tim Tai Room 129
Are the Adjuncts Alright?, by Franciska Coleman || Discussant: Heidi Kitrosser Room 111
6:30 pm Panelist Dinner (TBD)
Saturday
8:30 am: Breakfast - Dining Hall
9-10 am: Plenary Session 2 - Room 129
- Moody v. NetChoice: The Supreme Court Meets the Free Speech Triangle, by Jack Balkin, NetChoice and Telecom Law’s First Amendment, by Blake E. Reid, and Making Internet Law: How Cyberspace Was Socially Constructed as a First Amendment Speech System, by Morgan Weiland || Moderator: Margot Kaminski
10:00-10:15am: Break - Room 122
10:15-11:15am: Breakout Session 6
Fear and Free Speech, by Helen Norton || Discussant: Belle Torek Room 129
A Consequentialist Approach to Free Speech, by Marshall W. Van Alstyne || Discussant: Gregory Day Room 128
Curation as Competition, Curation as Vice, by Gerald Adams & Jane Bambauer || Discussant: Mehtab Khan Room 120
11:15am-12:15pm: Breakout Session 7
Content Moderation by LLM: From Accuracy to Legitimacy, by Tao Huang || Discussant: Enrique Armijo Room 128
Re-contouring Freedom of Thought, by Inyoung Cheong || Discussant: Chinmayi Arun Room 129
Jawboning as Collaborative Governance, by Daniel Browning || Discussant: Molly Land Room 120
12:30-1:45: Lunch and Plenary Session 3 - Room 129
- Objects in VR Are Closer Than They Appear: Speech, Harm, and Immersive Abuse in Virtual and Mixed Reality, by Belle Torek & Dignity and Deepfakes, by Michael P. Goodyear || Moderator: Bonnie Kaplan
Additional Events
2-4 pm Saturday: Memorial service and remembrance for Christina Spiesel, ISP fellow, at 53 Wall St.