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We the People

The First Amendment on Campus and Online

We the People

National Constitution Center

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The National Constitution Center, in partnership with a coalition of leading free speech organizations, convened a National First Amendment Summit on September 13, 2023, to discuss the increasing threats to freedom of expression and to celebrate the opening of the Center’s new First Amendment gallery. The third panel of the event, “The First Amendment on Campus and Online,” examined the increasing conflicts involving free speech on campuses and online in an age of social media, artificial intelligence, and other new technologies. Speakers included Will Creeley, legal director at FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression; Jeannie Suk Gersen, professor at Harvard Law School; and Nadine Strossen, emerita professor at New York Law School and former ACLU president. The program was moderated by Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.   Resources:  Will Creeley and Geoffrey R. Stone, Restoring Free Speech on Campus, The Washington Post (Sept. 25, 2015)    Jeannie Suk Gersen, What If Trigger Warnings Don’t Work?, The New Yorker (Sept. 28, 2021)  Jeannie Suk Gersen, The Trouble With Teaching Rape Law, The New Yorker (Dec. 15, 2014)  Jeannie Suk Gersen, Shutting Down Conversations About Rape at Harvard Law, The New Yorker (Dec 11, 2015)   Jeannie Suk Gersen, The Socratic Method in the Age of Trauma, Harvard Law Review ( 2017)  Nadine Strossen, Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oct. 2023)   Nadine Strossen, Hate: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018)    Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.  Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.  Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

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0:00.0

Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution

0:07.3

Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

0:11.8

The National Constitution Centers a nonpartisan

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nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the

0:18.4

Constitution among the American people. On September 13th, the NCC convened a National First Amendment

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summit to discuss threats to free expression in America and around the globe and

0:29.2

to celebrate the opening of our new First Amendment gallery.

0:33.5

The symposium began with a keynote conversation with Salmon Rushdie, and it featured three panels

0:38.7

with some of America's greatest First Amendment scholars.

0:42.1

Today on We The People

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were sharing the third panel, which focused

0:44.9

on the First Amendment on campus.

0:47.3

Our panelists were Will Creeley, legal director at Fire.

0:51.1

Jeannie Sugerson, professor at Harvard Law School, and Nadine Strossen of New York Law School.

0:57.7

You can hear the entire program on our Companion Podcast, live at the NCC.

1:03.0

Enjoy the show.

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Well, ladies and gentlemen,

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for the last of our panels,

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we have three more of America's greatest First Amendment heroes.

1:14.4

I'm just so excited to be in conversation with them.

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And we're going to talk about free speech on campus.

1:23.0

And Will Creeley from Fire and Adein Stroson from NYU,

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