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The John E. Sullivan Lecture The 31st Annual John E. Sullivan Lecture
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Vincent Blasi |
Vincent Blasi is the Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties at Columbia Law School. His undergraduate degree (in economics) is from Northwestern and his law degree is from the University of Chicago, where he studied with the renowned First Amendment scholar Harry Kalven, Jr. During his 43 years in law teaching, Professor Blasi has served on the law faculties of the University of Texas (1967-70), the University of Michigan (1970-83), and the University of Virginia (1998-2009), as well as Columbia (since 1983). In addition, he has been a visiting professor at Stanford, the University of California Berkeley, and William & Mary. He has published many articles about the history and theory of the freedom of speech, including “The Checking Value in First Amendment Theory” (1977), “The Pathological Perspective and the First Amendment” (1985), “The First Amendment and the Ideal of Civic Courage” (1988), “Learned Hand and the Self-Government Theory of the First Amendment" (1990), “Milton’s Areopagitica and the Modern First Amendment” (1995), “Free Speech and Good Character” (1999), and “Holmes and the Marketplace of Ideas” (2005), as well as articles on a host of specific topics, including mass demonstrations, press subpoenas, defamation, newsgathering, access to the press, prior restraint, freedom of association, school library censorship, commercial advertising, nude dancing, campaign finance, and the pledge of allegiance. His innovative casebook Ideas of the First Amendment (2006) introduced a history-of-ideas approach to the study of First Amendment law. In 1998, Professor Blasi was one of five law professors in the nation elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Frederick Schauer is David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. Previously he served for 18 years as Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he has served as academic dean and acting dean, and before that was a professor of law at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Law of Obscenity" (BNA, 1976), "Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry" (Cambridge, 1982), "Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life" (Clarendon/Oxford, 1991), "Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes" (Belknap/Harvard, 2003), and the forthcoming "Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning" (Harvard, 2009). He is also co-editor of "The Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings" (1996) and "The First Amendment: A Reader" (1995), and author of numerous articles on constitutional law and theory, freedom of speech and press, legal reasoning, and the philosophy of law.
Schauer is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been vice-president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Law of the American Philosophical Association, and was a founding co-editor of the journal Legal Theory. He has also been the Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, Ewald Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, Morton Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Dartmouth College, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, and Distinguished Visitor at the New York University School of Law. His work on rules, legal reasoning, constitutional theory, and freedom of speech has been the subject of a book (Linda Meyer, ed., Rules and Reasoning: Essays in Honour of Fred Schauer (Hart, 1999)) and symposia in Politeia, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the Notre Dame, Connecticut, and Quinnipiac Law Reviews. In 2007-08 Schauer was the George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University and a fellow of Balliol College. A graduate of Dartmouth College, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, and the Harvard Law School, Schauer was the recipient of a university-wide Distinguished Teacher Award from Harvard University in 2004.
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