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Constitutional Law,
U.S. Supreme Court

Oct. 20, 2017

First Amendment pressure points?

Various historical drivers created our near-absolute free speech protections; will contemporary forces - fake news, terrorism, hateful rhetoric - weaken them? Zachary Price (UC Hastings College of the Law) discusses doctrinal weak points these phenomena could threaten

Zachary S. Price

Associate Professor, UC Hastings College of the Law

Email: pricez@uchastings.edu

Blaine H. Evanson

Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Appellate and Constitutional Law and Intellectual Property

3161 Michelson Drive
Irvine , California 92612-4412

Phone: (949) 451-3805

Email: bevanson@gibsondunn.com

Columbia Univ Law School

Blaine is based in the firm's Orange County office, where he practices in the Appellate and Constitutional Law group.



This week we'll chat with Zachary Price, constitutional scholar and UC Hastings College of the Law Professor, about his forthcoming law review article Our Imperiled Absolutist First Amendment. Price traces our free speech doctrine's historically-determined rise to near-absolutist dimension, and wonders whether the vexing contemporary problems of fake news, hateful rhetoric, and terrorism could find doctrinal pressure points causing a reversal in the trend.

We'll also hear from Blaine Evanson, litigation partner with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, who will unpack the week's biggest SCOTUS cert grant in U.S. v. Microsoft.

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Brian Cardile

Rulings Editor, Podcast Host, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reporter
brian_cardile@dailyjournal.com

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