In January 1976, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Buckley v. Valeo, a landmark decision on the extent to which the First Amendment’s free speech clause protects contributions to political campaigns and their expenditures. Fifty years later, the Supreme Court is set to rule in another case on campaign finance and free speech, but the Court’s jurisprudential makeup is considerably different. While a majority of Supreme Court justices identify as originalists, little legal scholarship has been dedicated to understanding the free speech clause according to its original public meaning.
Please join CIT and co-host AEI for this special event on the original meaning of the First Amendment’s free speech guarantees.
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Agenda
11:45 am
Registration Opens
12:00 p.m.
Introduction:
J. Joel Alicea, Nonresident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
12:05 p.m.
Panel I
Panelists:
Jud Campbell, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Haley Proctor, Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
Stephen E. Sachs, Antonin Scalia Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Moderator:
J. Joel Alicea, Nonresident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
1:15 p.m.
Q&A
1:30 p.m.
Break
1:45 p.m.
Panel II
Panelists:
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
Michael T. Morley, Sheila M. McDevitt Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law
Bradley A. Smith, Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law, Capital University Law School
Moderator:
Adam J. White, Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance, American Enterprise Institute
3:00 p.m.
Q&A
3:15 p.m.
Adjournment
