Professor Rosenthal’s latest article, “First Amendment Investigations and the Inescapable Pragmatism of the Common Law of Free Speech,” has appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of the Indiana Law Journal. It uses the example of a government investigation triggered by the content of a suspect’s constitutionally protected speech, such as an investigation of an individual
The New York Times invited former Dean and Donald P. Kennedy Chair John Eastman to contribute an opinion piece to the New York Times “Room For Debate.” On September 22, 2010, Former Dean Eastman led the online discussion “On-Duty versus Off Duty” with a piece entitled, “Can Speech Be Limited for Public Workers?” The op-ed
Keynote speaker Professor Tom Bell discussed and even sang about the first amendment, copyright and “unoriginal speech” at the Liberty Tree Conference on Censorship hosted at Cal State Fullerton. “The problem with copyright is that the rights of users get smaller and smaller,” Bell said at the Conference. Read about it here.
Lorin Geitner has been invited to speak to the Men’s Spirituality Group at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Santa Ana, about his article, “The First Amendment and the Problems of Alienation,” which was published in the February issue of Orange County Lawyer magazine.
Lorin Geitner, Reference Lawyer/Libarian, published an article in Orange County Lawyer Magazine titled “The First Amendment and the Problems of Alienation.” It surveys the different orientations of law and religion in world history, and set out how the religion clauses in the First Amendment define the relation between the two institutions in our own culture
Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed in The Panther entitled, “The right of free speech, regardless of what is spoken.” The op-ed discusses the controversy surrounding the legal memos written by Visiting Professor John Yoo during his tenure under the Bush administration. Professor Rotunda states, “Debating these issues in an intellectual environment is what the
Professor Larry Rosenthal was quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, in an article entitled “Professors’ Freedoms Under Assault in the Courts.” The article discusses several recent court decisions that have raised doubts about the status of academic freedom at public colleges and universities. Professor Rosenthal states, “most academics are extremely protective of virtually unfettered
Professor Lawrence Rosenthal published, “The Emerging First Amendment Law of Managerial Prerogative,” in the Fordham Law Review.
Professor John Hall published co-wrote an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune, entitled ” Cambodia’s free press under fire,” with professor Sophal Ear of the Department of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. The piece addresses the increased killing of journalists in Cambodia and the challenges to a free press
Law school alumnus, Mark D. Schopper (’02), was quoted on June 11, 2008 in a Washington Post article entitled “Anti-Child-Porn Tactic Criticized: Thwarting Payments Makes Users Hard to Track, Report Says.” Of note, while in law school, Mark wrote an article for the Chapman Law Review on digital currency that took on a life of