FESC 5
At FESC, scholars and practitioners discuss works-in-progress on the freedoms of speech, expression, press, association, petition, and assembly as well as on related issues of knowledge and information policy. FESC has become a fixture on the calendar of leading First Amendment thinkers and scholars nationwide. The paper titles and attendees from prior conferences are available here: 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013.
SATURDAY, APRIL 29th, 2017
8 am – 12 pm – Registration in Sterling Law Building (“SLB”) Room 122
8:30 am – 9:15 am – Breakfast and Welcome by Floyd Abrams at the Law School Dining Hall
9:15 am – 10:30 am – First Session (Breakout Session)
Author | Paper Title | Moderator | Room |
Heidi Kitrosser | Free Speech, Higher Education and the PC Narrative | Caroline Mala Corbin | SLB 124 |
N/A | Moot for Justin Marceau’s upcoming oral argument in Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Wasden, No. 15-35960 (9th Cir.) | N/A | SLB 128 |
Ashley Messenger | Rethinking the Right of Publicity in the Context of Social Media | Sandra Baron | SLB 129 |
11:00 am – 12:15 pm – Second Session (Breakout Session)
Author | Paper Title | Moderator | Room |
Hannah Bloch-Wehba | Exposing Secret Searches: A First Amendment Right of Access to Electronic Surveillance Applications and Orders | Jameel Jaffer | SLB 124 |
David Pozen | Transparency’s Ideological Drift | John Langford | SLB 128 |
Lyrissa Lidsky | #I [GUN EMOJI] U: Considering the Context of Online Threats | Alexander Tsesis | SLB 129 |
Marc Blitz | Intermediate Scrutiny, the Spence Test, And Other Tools for Navigating Lockean Borderlands | Enrique Armijo | SLB 127 |
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm – Lunch at the Law School Dining Hall
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm – Third Session (Plenary Panel) – Press Freedom
Author | Paper Title | Moderator | Room |
Christina Koningisor | The De Facto Reporter’s Privilege | Floyd Abrams & David Schulz | SLB 127 |
RonNell Andersen Jones & Sonja R. West | Press Freedom’s House of Cards | ||
Lisa Sun & RonNell Andersen Jones | Enemy Construction and the Press | ||
D. Victoria Baranetsky | Press Clause and Privacy Principles |
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm – Fourth Session (Breakout Session)
Author | Paper Title | Moderator | Room |
Brian Soucek | Permitting Art | Tabatha Abu El-Haj | SLB 124 |
Helen Norton | Government Speech and the War on Terror | Heidi Kitrosser | SLB 128 |
Morgan N. Weiland | First Amendment Metaphors: From “Marketplace” to “Free Flow of Information” | Alan Chen | SLB 129 |
Alexander Tsesis | Categorizing Away Student Speech | Ashutosh Bhagwat | SLB 127 |
5:15 pm – 6:30 pm – Fifth Session (Breakout Session)
Author | Paper Title | Moderator | Room |
Justin Marceau & Alan K. Chen | Material Benefits, Cognizable Harms, and the Scope of the Constitutional Protection for Lies | Lyrissa Lidsky | SLB 124 |
Vincent Blasi | Rights Skepticism and Majority Rule at the Birth of the Modern First Amendment | Genevieve Lakier | SLB 128 |
Caroline Mala Corbin | Depictions of Terrorists in the U.S. through a Critical Race & Propaganda Lens | Maggie McKinley | SLB 129 |
Ashutosh Bhagwat | When Speech is Not “Speech” | Jack Balkin | SLB 127 |
SUNDAY, APRIL 30th, 2017
8:30 am – 9:00 am – Breakfast at Law School Dining Hall
9:00 am – 10:15 am – Sixth Session (Breakout Session)
Author | Paper Title | Moderator | Room |
Ge Chen | Copyright and International Negotiations: An Engine of Free Expression in China | BJ Ard | SLB 124 |
Tabatha Abu El-Haj | “Live Free or Die”—Liberty and the First Amendment | Amanda Shanor | SLB 128 |
Jonathan Manes | Methods & Techniques: The Problem of Secret Innovation in Law Enforcement | Hannah Bloch-Wehba | SLB 129 |
10:45 am – 12:00 pm – Seventh Session (Breakout Session)
Author | Paper Title | Moderator | Room |
Roy Gutterman | Ballot Selfies: New Political Speech in Search of First Amendment Protection in Social Media | Claudia Haupt | SLB 124 |
Enrique Armijo | Government-Provided Internet Access, Infrastructures of Free Expression, and the Role of the State | David Schulz | SLB 128 |
Andrew Tutt | Structural Barriers To the Transformation of the United States Into a “Democratic” Information State |
12:15 pm – 2:00 pm – Eighth Session (Lunchtime Plenary Panel) – Content Regulation
Author | Paper Title | Moderator | Room |
Genevieve Lakier | Reed v. Town of Gilbert, Arizona and the Rise of the Anti-Classificatory First Amendment | Robert Post | SLB 127 |
Claudia Haupt | Professional Speech and the Content-Neutrality Trap | ||
Rachael L. Jones & Wendy Serra | “Neither Sheep Nor Fools”: Justice Scalia and the Legacy of R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, Minnesota |
PARTICIPANTS:
Floyd Abrams
Tabatha Abu El-Haj
Ron Nell Andersen Jones
BJ Ard
Enrique Armijo
Jack Balkin
Victoria Baranetsky
Sandra Baron
Ashutosh Bhagwat
Vincent Blasi
Marc Blitz
Hannah Bloch- Wehba
Alan Chen
Ge Chen
Thomas Crocker
Roy Gutterman
Claudia Haupt
Jamel Jaffer
Rachel Jones
Heidi Kitrosser
Christina Koningsor
Genevieve Lakier
John Langford
Lyrissa Lidsky
Caroline Mala Corbin
Jonathan Manes
Justin Marceau
Maggie McKinley
Ashley Messenger
Helen Norton
Robert Post
David Pozen
David Schulz
Wendy Serra
Amanda Shanor
Brian Soucek
Lisa Sun
Alexander Tsesis
Andrew Tutt
Morgan Weiland
Sonja West