THURSDAY, APRIL 29
4:30 – 6:00 PM: Symposium, Journal of Free Speech Law
Conduits or Publishers: Should social media and other Internet platforms be viewed as conduits for the speech of others or as publishers of speech of their choosing -- or as both, and what should that mean?
Kyle Langvardt - Will the First Amendment Scale?
Eugene Volokh - Social Media Platforms as Common Carriers?
Christopher Yoo -The First Amendment Rights of Common Carriers: Net Neutrality, Privacy, and Beyond
Moderator: Jane Bambauer
FRIDAY, APRIL 30
12:00 – 1:20 PM: First Session PLENARY — COMPELLED SPEECH DOCTRINE
Alan K. Chen Compelled Speech Doctrine and the Regulatory State
Alexander Tsesis Compelled Speech and Proportionality
Moderator: Francesca Procaccini
1:30 – 2:20 PM: Second session BREAK-OUT
Break-out Room 1: Tabatha Abu El-Haj - How the Liberal First Amendment Under-Protects Democracy - Vince Blasi
Break-out Room 2: Scott Skinner-Thompson - Identity by Committee - Jason Mazzone
Break-out Room 3: Michael Karanicolas – A FOIA for Facebook: Meaningful Transparency for Online Platforms - Sarah Haan
2:30 – 3:20 PM: Third session BREAK-OUT
Break-out Room 1: Brian Soucek - Diversity Statements - John Wilson
Break-out Room 2: Francesca Procaccini- Equal Speech Protection - Ashutosh Bhagwat
Break-out Room 3: Thomas Streinz - The Flawed Dualism of Facebook Oversight Board - Sari Mazzurco
3:30 – 4:20 PM: Fourth session BREAK-OUT
Break-out Room 1: Laura Little & Alberto Godioli - Humor and Dignitary Harm in Europe and the United States: a Comparative Approach - Christoph Bush
Break-out Room 2: Caroline Mala-Corbin - Unprincipled Free Speech Originalism - Jack Balkin
Break-out Room 3: Timothy Zick - Protestors’ Liability: the Cost of Dissent - Tabatha Abu El-Haj
4:30 – 6:10 PM: Fifth session PLENARY – PLATFORM REGULATION I: THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DISTINCTION
Erin Miller - The Quasi-State Action Doctrine
Hannah Bloch-Wehba - Content Moderation as Surveillance
Thomas Kadri - Platform Federalism
Amanda Shanor - Democratizing Big Tech - George Wang
Moderator: Adam Posluns
SATURDAY, MAY 1
12:00 – 1:30 PM: Sixth session PLENARY – FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
Erin Caroll - Obstruction of Journalism
Mathew L. Schafer - Does Houchins Matter?
RonNell Andersen Jones & Sonja West - The Disappearance of the Freedom of the Press
Moderator: Samantha Barbas
1:40 – 2:30 PM: Seventh session BREAK-OUT
Break-out Room 1: Christina Koningisor - Public Undersight - Eric Freedman
Break-out Room 2: Charles Girard - Balancing Freedom of Speech: the Problem of Intra-Right Conflicts - Niklas Eder
Break-out Room 3: Claudia Haupt - High-Stakes Advice - Alicia Solow-Niederman
2:40 – 3:30 PM: Eighth session BREAK-OUT
Break-out Room 1: Gabe Rottman- Developments in Leak Law under the Trump Administration - Heidi Kitrosser
Break-out Room 2: Felix Wu - An Anti-antidiscrimination Theory of the First Amendment - Genevieve Lakier
Break-out Room 3: Morgan N. Weiland - The ‘Intermediated Public Sphere’
Break-out Room 4: Robert Post - NIFLA and the Construction of the Compelled Speech Doctrine - Amanda Shanor
3:40 – 4:30 PM: Ninth Session PLENARY – PLATFORM REGULATION II: PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE
Helen Norton - Manipulation and the First Amendment
Margot Kaminski - Privacy Transparency
Artur Periclès - Curtailing Online Anonymity: Healthier Communities?
Moderator: Elettra Bietti