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College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository IBRL Events Institute of Bill of Rights Law 1991 Freedom of Expression Past, Present and Future (Program) Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary Law School Repository Citation Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary Law School, "Freedom of Expression Past, Present and Future (Program)" (1991). IBRL Events. 52. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/ibrlevents/52 Copyright c 1991 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/ibrlevents FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE A 1991 Research Conference For the Bicentennial of the First Amendment April 5-7, 1991 in Williamsburg, Virginia Sponsored by: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and The Institute of Bill of Rights Law of the College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Friday, April 5 Law School Lobby 8:30 a.m. Registration Student Lounge Coffee Room 119 9:00 a.m. Welcome Timothy 1. Sullivan, Dean of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, John Stewart Bryan Professor of Jurisprudence, and Executive Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The FIrst Amendment as Ideology--Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 10:00 a.m. Break Room 119 10: 15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Presentations from Scholarly Paper Competition Susan Gellman, Adjunct Professor, Capital University Law School, and Assistant Public Defender, Ohio Public Defender Commission. "Sticks and Stones May Put You in Jail, But Can Words Increase Your Sentence?" Alan J. Howard, Professor of Law, Saint Louis University, 'The Constitutionality of Deceptive Speech Regulations: Replacing the Commercial Speech Doctrine with a Tort-Based Relational Framework" Bill Loving, Student, Southern Methodist University School of Law, "An Inquiry / into the Constitutionality of an Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes (The Sedition Act)" 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Question and Answer with Audience and Session Speakers Morning Moderator: Rodney A. Smolla, Hanson Professor of Law and Director, Institute of Bill of Rights Law 11:45 p.m. Break for Lunch (on your own) Room 119 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Presentations from Scholarly Paper Competition Larry D. Eldridge, Recent PhD, History, Vanderbilt University, "The Seeds of Our Freedom: The Growth of Free Speech in Early America, 1607-1700" Timothy W. Gleason, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Oregon. "Seeking Shelter from the 'Best Man' (and Newspaper Editors): Libel Litigation in the Late 18oos" Richard W. Steele, Professor of History, San Diego State University, "Curbing the Beast Within: Free Speech and the Control of Sedition in the U.S., 1919- 1941." Question and Answer With Audience and Session Speakers Afternoon Moderator: Professor Betty Winfield, University of Missouri School of Journalism Room 119 7:00 p.m. EVENING SESSION The Scholarly Paper Competition Presentation of Scholarly Paper Awards-Richard Hixson, Professor of Journalism and Mass Media, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University Keynote Address-The Unanswered Questions of the First Amentment--Vincent A. Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia University School of Law; Visiting Distinguished Lee Professor of Law, Institute of Bill of Rights Law Student Lounge 8:00 p.m. Reception Saturday, April 6 Student Lounge 8:00 a.m. Coffee Room 119 8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Does the First Amendment Protect More Than Freedom of Speech? Stephen L. Carter, Professor of Law, Yale University Student Lounge 9:15 a.m. Break 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Presentations from Scholarly Paper Competition William V. Luneburg, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburg, "Civic Republicanism, The First Amendment, and Executive Branch Policymaking" Maurine H. Beasley, Professor of Journalism, University of Maryland, "Women Journalists and Freedom of the Press: A Preliminary Historical Inquiry" Hosoon Chang, Student, Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, 'The Book Burning Controversy of 1953: The McCarthy Committee's Investigation of the International Information Agency Overseas Libraries" 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Question and Answer with Audience and Session Speakers Morning Moderator: Bill F. Chamberlin, Joseph L. Brechner Eminent Scholor of Freedom of Information and Director, Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, University of Florida 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Small-Group Seminar Sessions (See next page for details) 11:45 a.m. Break for Lunch (on your own) Room 119 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Speech as Speech, Speech as Property: A First Amendment Conundrum Diane L. Zimmerman, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Student Lounge 2:00 p.m. Break (Vending machines available) 2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The American Urge to Censor: Freedom of Expression vs. the Desire to Sanitize Society-Margaret Blanchard. Professor of of Journalism. University of North Carolina 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Question and Answer With Audience and Session Speakers Afternoon Moderator: Vincent Blasi 3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Small Group Seminar Sessions (See next page for details) Sunday, April 7 Student Lounge 8:00 a.m. Coffee Room 119 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Discussion: Alternative Perspectives on First Amendment Research. Focusing on Critical Studies, and Feminist, Historical. Economic. and Policy Approaches to the First Amendment Panel: Margaret Blanchard; Kathryn Abrams. Professor of Law. Boston University; Timothy Brennan. Professor of Policy Sciences. University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Robert Entman, Professor of Communications Studies. Northwestern University Panel Moderator: Robert Trager. Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication. University of Colorado Room 119 10:15 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. Workshop: "Preparing First Amendment Scholars for the Twenty-First Century" Speaker: Robert C. Berring, Professor of Law and Law Librarian. University of California, Berkeley 10:45 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Discussion Sessions (See next page for details) Room 119 11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Conclusion Workshop Moderator: Tom Eveslage, Professor of Communications. Temple University. Department of Journalism Admlnl.tratlv. ON/e.. Law Schoo I First Floor / Law Ubr.ry Second Floor GROUP SESSIONS Saturday. April 6 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. SMALL-GROUP SEMINAR SESSIONS Room 127 Leader: Tom Collins. Professor of Law. College of William and Mary Participants: Last Names Beginning with K. S. W Room 124 Leader: T. Barton Carter. School of Public Relations and Mass Communications, Boston University Participants: Last Names Beginning with B, F, L, T Room 120 Leader: Santiago Sanchez. Professor of Constitutional Law. UNED (Madrid) Participants: Last Names Beginning with H, I. M, N, Y Room 239 Leader: Claudia Haskell, Executive Director, First Amendment Congress Participants: Last Names Beginning with C, 0, P, U Room G-5 Leader: Stephen Carter Participants: Last Names Beginning with D, G, R. Z Room G-16 Leader: Kathy Abrams Participants: Last Names Beginning with A, E, J, N 3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. SMALL GROUP SEMINAR SESSIONS Room 127 Leader: Tom Collins Participants: Last Names Beginning with K, S, W Room 124 Leader: T. Barton Carter Participants: Last Names Beginning with B, F, L, T Room 120 Leader: Santiago Sanchez Participants: Last Names Beginning with H, I, M, N, Y Room 239 Leader: Claudia Haskell Participants: Last Names Beginning with C, 0, P, U Room G-5 Leader: Bill Chamberlain Participants: Last Names Beginning with D, G, R, Z Room G-16 Leader: Rod Smolla Participants: Last Names Beginning with A, E, J, N Sunday. April 7 10:45 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. DISCUSSION SESSIONS Room 127 Leader: Fred Schauer Participants: Last Names Beginning with K, S, W Room 124 Leader: Ruth Walden, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Participants: Last Names Beginning with B, F, L, T Room 120 Leader: Betty Winfield Participants: Last Names Beginning with H, I, M, N, Y Room 239 Leader: Bill Chamberlin Participants: Last Names Beginning with C, 0, P, U Room G-5 Leader: Bob Drechsel, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison Participants: Last Names Beginning with D, G, R, Z Room G-16 Leader: Don Gillmore, Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota Participants: Last Names Beginning with A, E, J, N THE PAPER COMPETITION AEJMC and the Institute wish to extend special thanks to Professor Richard Hixson of the Rutgers University Department of Journalism and Mass Media who selected the paper competition judges and coordinated the judging process and to the readers and judges who worked with him. Each paper was read by at least two subject specialists who were asked to recommend whether the paper should be rejected, accepted, or accepted conditionally. Readers who screened papers in their areas of specialty included: Gerald Baldasty, School of Communications, University of Washington; Ross Baker, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University; Louise Benjamin, Department of Telecommunications Radio-TV, Indiana University; Dorothy Bowles, School of Journalism, University of Tennessee; Sandra Braman, Institute of Communication Research, University of Illinois, Charlene Brown, School