Symposium 2024

Symposium 2024: The First Amendment and Listener Interests

SCLR welcomes you to “The First Amendment and Listener Interests,” our 2024 Symposium.

Dates: Friday, November 8, 2024, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Saturday, November 9, 2024, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Location: USC Law Building – Faculty Lounge

Questions? Contact lawreview@lawmail.usc.edu.

The schedule of speakers is below. Download the flyer here.

Schedule

Friday, November 8, 2024

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Breakfast and Welcome

9:30 – 10:40 AM

Listening on Campus: Academic Freedom and Its Audiences

Featured Speaker: Joseph Blocher (Duke Law School)
Discussant: Rebecca Brown (USC Gould School of Law)

10:50 AM – 12:00 PM

Fear and Free Speech

Featured Speaker: Helen Norton (University of Colorado School of Law)
Discussant: Nelson Tebbe (Cornell Law School)

12:00 – 1:10 PM

Lunch

1:10 – 2:20 PM

Islands of Algorithmic Integrity

Featured Speaker: Aziz Huq (University of Chicago Law School)
Discussant: Erin Miller (USC Gould School of Law)

2:30 – 3:40 PM

Listeners’ Choices and the Media

Featured Speaker: James Grimmelmann (Cornell Law School)
Discussant: Alan Chen (University of Denver Sturm College of Law)

3:50 – 5:00 PM

First Amendment Governance: Social Media, Power, and Democratic Listeners

Featured Speaker: Yasmin Dawood (University of Toronto Faculty of Law)
Discussant: Abby Wood (USC Gould School of Law)

Saturday, November 9, 2024

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Breakfast

9:30 – 10:40 AM

Speakers, Audience, and Listeners: A Misunderstood Relationship

Featured Speaker: Ashutosh Bhagwat (UC Davis School of Law)
Discussant: Eugene Volokh (UCLA School of Law)

10:50 AM – 12:00 PM

Accountability for the Ages

Featured Speaker: Heidi Kitrosser (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law)
Discussant: Christina Koningisor (UC Law San Francisco)