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Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference 13 (2025)

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.