| THE MASTERMAN INSTITUTE
On the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate
Please Note: This course has already
been held.
Date: Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
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“Justice Alito’s First Amendment” Justice Samuel Alito is now in his seventh year on the Supreme Court. He has participated in approximately twenty decisions involving the meaning and application of the First Amendment's guarantee of "the freedom of speech." These decisions have involved such matters as campaign finance regulation, hate speech, government speech, offensive ideas and images, student speech, and speech that benefits terrorists. How, if at all, is his First Amendment jurisprudence similar to, or different from, his fellow Justices? What, in short, does the First Amendment mean to Justice Alito, and what does this tell us more generally about his overall approach to constitutional interpretation?
Keynote Speaker: GEOFFREY R. STONE, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago. Mr. Stone teaches and writes primarily in the area of constitutional law. His most recent book is Speaking Out! Reflections on Law, Liberty and Justice (2010). Mr. Stone’s Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004) received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for 2005, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for 2004 as the best book in the field of history, the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Award for 2005 for the best book in Political Science, and Harvard University's 2005 Goldsmith Award for the best book in the field of Public Affairs. Mr. Stone is currently chief editor of a fifteen-volume series, Inalienable Rights, which is being published by the Oxford University Press. Mr. Stone is working on a new book, Sexing the Constitution, which will explore the historical evolution in western culture of the intersection of sex, religion, and law. Mr. Stone also serves as an editor of the Supreme Court Review.
Panel: ROBERT A. BERTSCHE, ESQ., Prince Lobel Tye LLP, is a nationally known media lawyer. A former newspaper and magazine journalist, he offers counseling and litigation services to the gamut of media clients throughout the U. S. Rob is a member of the N. E. Society of Professional Journalists advisory board, general counsel to NENPA, founder of the N. E. Media Law Group and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Since 2002, the American Society of Magazine Editors has selected Rob to present its annual business and editorial law training for magazines nationwide. He is a visiting lecturer at Tufts University, where he teaches “Media Law and Ethics in a Digital World.” For almost two decades, he has authored the annual survey of First Circuit libel law published by the Media Law Resource Center. He also writes the outline of Massachusetts public access law published by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Rob also serves on the National Advisory Committee of the Student Press Law Center, an information clearinghouse whose members advocate for student speech rights.
KARLENE W. GOLLER is V. P., Legal and Deputy General Counsel for the Los Angeles Times, and Senior Counsel/West Coast Media for Tribune Co. Goller serves on the Board of Directors and Government Affairs Committee of the California Newspaper Publishers Assn. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School. Goller is a member of the legal advisory board of the University of California Irvine's Literary Journalism Program and serves on the legal committees of LA Youth newspaper and the Newspaper Assn. of America. She is a member of the editorial boards of the American Bar Assn.'s Forum on Communications and the Media Law Resource Center's MediaLawLetter. Goller serves on the Board of Directors of Public Counsel Law Center. Goller is the only non-editorial employee at the Los Angeles Times to be awarded a Top of The Times award. In 2008 she received a Special Citation at the Los Angeles Times Editorial Awards for 2007 "for her unstinting standards and her long advocacy to increase through the courts and other legal institutions the newsgathering capacities of The Times."
JIM NEWTON is editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Times. He serves as a member of The Times' editorial board, advises on editorial matters and writes and edits for the editorial page and Op-Ed, including a weekly column examining the policy and politics of Southern California. A 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times, he has worked as a reporter, editor and bureau chief. He was part of the Los Angeles Times' coverage of the Los Angeles riots in 1992 and the earthquake of 1994, both of which were awarded Pulitzer Prizes to the staff. Also an author, Newton in 2006 published “Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made,” a critically acclaimed best-selling biography of the former chief justice and California governor. In 2011, he followed that book with "Eisenhower: The White House Years." It, too, received widespread praise, and was a national best-seller. Newton is a Senior Fellow with UCLA's School of Public Affairs.
MARY-ROSE PAPANDREA joined the Boston College Law faculty in 2004. A graduate of Yale College and the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Papandrea clerked for Honorable David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Papandrea has served as Chair of the AALS National Security Law and Mass Communication Law Sections. Her research focuses on the impact of new technology on our understanding of the First Amendment and media law. Her recent writing includes: “Social Media, Public School Teachers, and the First Amendment,” North Carolina Law Review (2012); “The Story of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan,” First Amendment Stories (2012). PANEL MODERATOR
JESSICA SILBEY, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School. Professor Silbey’s scholarship engages in a cultural analysis of law, with one of her key interests being the interdiscipline of law and film. Professor Silbey teaches courses in constitutional law, trademarks and copyrights. She recently edited a book about law and television entitled “Law on the Small Screen” (Hart 2012, with Peter Robson). And she is currently working on a book about intellectual property law (to be published by Stanford University Press in 2013). Before joining the faculty of Suffolk University Law School, Professor Silbey was a litigator at the law firm of Foley Hoag LLP in Boston. Her professional activities include: Chair and Program Chair, AALS Section on Law and Humanities (2009-2010, 2010-2011); Editorial Board, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (2009-2012); Board, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities (2007-2010).
RECEPTION 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Please join the Mastermans, Professor Stone and the panelists following the lecture. This will be a great way to catch up with old friends and make new connections while making the most of your attendance at this year’s Masterman Institute.
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
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This symposium is FREE of charge, but you must RSVP in advance and early as space is limited.
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Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
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