CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
SPEECH AND SILENCE IN AMERICAN LAW
The University of Alabama School of Law
Friday, February 27, 2009
The conference, "Speech and Silence in American Law," is
the fifth installment in the law school's Law, Knowledge &
Imagination symposia, which are organized by Professor
Austin Sarat, the Justice Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior
Faculty Scholar at Alabama School of Law. The three-year
series is designed to challenge and reassess conventional
wisdom associated with a broad range of topics including
law, history and scientific analysis.
This symposium will examine how the law values silence,
focusing on the right not to speak, as well as the decision
not to select a speaker, in both private and government
discourse. Panelists will analyze compelled speech, in
contexts ranging from the flag salute to the Solomon
Amendment cases, as well as instances where individuals are
forced to be identified with a particular message.
Cambridge University Press will publish the papers in this
symposium as well as those in Alabama Law's October 2008
Law, Knowledge & Imagination forum titled, "Sovereignty,
Emergency and Legality."
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS:
Danielle Allen (Institute for Advanced Study)
Peter Brooks (Yale University)
Marianne Constable (University of California at Berkeley)
Martin Redish (Northwestern University School of Law)
Louis Seidman (Georgetown Law Center)
REGISTRATION/FURTHER INFORMATION:
Registration is free. Please visit:
http://www.AlabamaSymposia.com
for more information.
Posted 2/12/09
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