About this Event
Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Panel: Balancing Free Speech and National Security in the Digital Age
Please join us in the Moot Court Room at Cardozo School of Law for "Balancing Free Speech and National Security in the Digital Age. " The symposium will cover how we can balance free speech and national security in the digital age. Panelists will discuss whether and how national security goals conflict with free speech principles in an era of vertically integrated platform communications, heightened geopolitical competition, and expanding executive authority. There will be one panel for the event.
This program is approved for 2.0 transitional/non-transitional New York State CLE credits in the category “Areas of Professional Practice.” To receive CLE credits for this event, you must attend the program “live.” We cannot award CLE credits for watching a recorded version of any part of this program.
Timed agenda: Monday, March 16, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM panel. There will be a breakfast reception prior to the event and a lunch reception after.
The Symposium will be available on Zoom.
Zoom Link: https://yeshiva-university.zoom.us/j/92872294074
Moderators & Panelists include:
Jess Miers, Professor at Akron School of Law
- Jess Miers is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Akron School of Law. A lawyer and technologist, Jess focuses on the intersection of law and technology, with recent research and scholarship centered on Generative AI. Jess is recognized as an expert in U.S. online intermediary liability law and has extensively written, spoken, and taught on issues such as online speech and Section 230, content moderation, intellectual property, and cybercrime.
- https://www.uakron.edu/law/faculty/directory/profile.dot?u=jmiers
- https://ctrlaltdissent.com/about-jess-miers/
Heidi Kitrosser, Professor at Northwestern Law
- Heidi Kitrosser is the William W. Gurley Professor of Law. Before joining Northwestern in 2022, she was the Robbins Kaplan Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she had joined the law faculty in 2006. From 2003-2006, she was an assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School. Kitrosser is an expert on the constitutional law of federal government secrecy and on separation of powers and free speech law more broadly. She has written, spoken, and consulted widely on these topics. Her book, Reclaiming Accountability: Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution, was published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press. It was awarded the 2014 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. Kitrosser’s articles have appeared in many venues, including the Supreme Court Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Constitutional Commentary. She is a 2017 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
- https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/heidikitrosser/
Kate Klonick, Professor at St. John's School of Law
- Kate Klonick teaches Property, Internet Law, and a seminar on information privacy. Klonick's research focuses on law and technology, most recently on private platform governance of online speech. Klonick's scholarly work has appeared in The Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, The Georgetown Law Journal, the peer-reviewed Copyright Journal of the U.S.A., The Maryland Law Review, and The Southern California Law Review. Her popular press writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Lawfare, Slate, Vox, and numerous other publications. Professor Klonick holds an A.B. with honors from Brown University, where she studied both modern American History and cognitive neuroscience, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Senior Editor on the Georgetown Law Journal, and a Ph.D. in Law from Yale Law School. She clerked for Hon. Eric N. Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York and Hon. Richard C. Wesley of the Second Circuit. She is an affiliated fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution.
- https://www.stjohns.edu/law/faculty/kate-klonick
- https://kateklonick.com/
Christina Koningisor, Professor at U.C. Law San Francisco
- Christina Koningisor teaches and writes about constitutional law, administrative law, media law, and state and local government law. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. Professor Koningisor is a graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University. She has previously served as a lawyer for the New York Times, a law clerk on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and a Fulbright fellow in Kuwait.
- https://www.uclawsf.edu/people/christina-koningisor/
Moderator: TBD
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
55 5th Ave, 55 5th Avenue, New York, United States
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