Is Free Speech an Outmoded Concept?
This event is co-sponsored by the Heterodox Academy at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Nadine Strossen, the former longtime ACLU President and New York Law School professor emerita, is now a Senior Fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), and author of the 2023 book Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know®, will discuss the most challenging questions about free speech rights – and wrongs – with Matthew Burgess of the University of Wyoming. Students, faculty, staff, and community members are welcome! Come prepared with your most pressing and toughest questions!
Speaker:
Nadine Strossen, the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School and past President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008), is a Senior Fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education) and a leading expert and frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties, who has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. She serves on the advisory boards of the ACLU, Academic Freedom Alliance, Heterodox Academy, National Coalition Against Censorship, and the University of Austin.