Mar 20/Cleveland: Censorship and Death

Philip Hamburger

Americans like to believe that prior licensing of speech and the press came to an end in the seventeenth century.  This was the sort of censorship that the Inquisition imposed on Galileo, that the English abandoned in 1695, and that the First Amendment most clearly prohibited.  Nonetheless, the federal government has revived the licensing of speech and the press.  It does this by means of committees known as "Institutional Review Boards," and although it claims that it imposes the licensing to protect Americans, it thereby licenses much academic speech and publication.  Professor Hamburger will discuss this reversion to 17th century censorship and its consequences for Americans.
Title:
Censorship and Death
Date/Time/Place:
Tue, 03/20/2012
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
(Moot Court Room)
Speaker:
Professor Philip Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is widely published in the area of constitutional law and its history.
Sponsor:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University
CLE credit: 
1 free hour approved
More:
https://www.law.csuohio.edu/newsevents/events/2012032017001281