Revisiting the Woodward Report: Free Expression on College Campuses

The Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech invites you to a conference titled "Revisiting the Woodward Report: Free Expression on College Campuses." This academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the Woodward Report, a landmark document in the history free speech at American universities. The report was produced at Yale University by a committee chaired by the historian C. Vann Woodward and is formally titled, “Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale.” 

Registration for this event is required for all members of the broader Yale community.

12:00pm – Registration (SLB Room 122) and Opening Remarks (SLB Room 120)

Heather K. Gerken – Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School 
Keith E. Whittington – David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School

12:30pm – Panel: Reflections on the Woodward Report at Yale

James C. Cobb – B. Phinizy Spalding Professor Emeritus of History, University of Georgia 
Robert C. Post – Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School 
Kenneth Barnes – practicing attorney and author of the dissenting opinion of the Woodward Report 
Kate Stith – Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, Yale Law School

2:15pm – 30-minute coffee and restroom break in SLB Room 122 (Koffee catering)

2:45pm – Panel: Woodward Report and Campus Free Expression

Randall L. Kennedy – Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University 
Sigal Ben-Porath – MRMJJ Presidential Professor, University of Pennsylvania 
Ronald A. Crutcher – President Emeritus, University of Richmond 
Amna Khalid – Associate Professor of History, Carleton College

4:30pm – Closing Remarks

James C. Ho – Judge, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals