| FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY
The First Annual Symposium of the Masterman Institute on the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate
Please Note: This course has already
been held.
Date: Thursday, March 05, 2009
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 12:00 PM - 04:30 PM
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About the Masterman Institute Some of the most polarizing and provocative issues of our time involve matters rooted in the First Amendment. Edward I. Masterman JD ’50, LLD ’90 and his wife Sydell established The Masterman Institute on the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate to provide a forum for robust debate and exchange of ideas on freedom of the press and its attendant responsibilities. The Institute will host a symposium each year that will bring together representatives from government, the legal profession, and the press for the purpose of informing, educating, and engaging those who care deeply about these issues. Professor Karen M. Blum JD ’74 has been selected as Director of the Masterman Institute. Professor Blum teaches in the areas of federal courts and civil rights and liberties.
12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon address featuring two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis speaking on Journalistic Freedom and Privacy: A case of relative compatibility
The First Amendment necessarily affords the broadest freedom to speak or publish. At what point, however, do or should the legal and moral interests in individual privacy constrain that freedom?
2:15-4:15 p.m. Freedom of the Press and Individual Privacy: Panel Discussion
MODERATOR: Alasdair Roberts
Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy, Suffolk University Law School
PANEL: Jonathan Albano
Attorney specializing in media law at Bingham, McCutchen LLP
Scott Armstrong
Executive director of the Information Trust; former Washington Post reporter; co-author of The Brethren; founder of the National Security Archive
The Honorable Nancy Gertner
United States District Court Judge, District of Massachusetts
Eileen McNamara
Professor of the Practice of Journalism, Brandeis University; Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Boston Globe
John Reinstein
Senior counsel and legal director, ACLU Massachusetts
Reception to follow, from 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Anthony Lewis was a columnist for the New York Times from 1969 to December 2001. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2001, he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal. Lewis was born in New York City on March 27, 1927, and received a BA in 1948 from Harvard College.
From 1948 to 1952 he was deskman in the Sunday department of The Times. In 1952, he became a reporter for the Washington Daily News. In 1955, he won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles in The News on the dismissal of a Navy employee as a security risk. The articles led to the employee’s reinstatement.
In 1955, Lewis joined the Washington bureau of the New York Times. In 1956-57, he spent the academic year studying at Harvard Law School as a Neiman Fellow. On his return to Washington, he covered the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and other legal matters, including the government’s handling of the civil rights movement, for The Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Supreme Court in 1963.
He became the chief of The Times London bureau in 1964 and began writing his column from London in 1969. Since 1973, he has been located in Boston.
Lewis is the author of four books: Gideon’s Trumpet, about a landmark Supreme Court case; Portrait of a Decade, about the great changes in American race relations; Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment; and Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment. For 15 years, Lewis was a lecturer on the law at Harvard Law School, and since 1983 he has held the James Madison Visiting Professorship at Columbia University.
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This conference is FREE. However, early registration is advised since space is limited.
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Space is limited for this luncheon, early registration is advised.
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Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
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