May 11: First Amendment
Legal Studies program presents talk, discussion, book launch
2:33 p.m., May 3, 2016--Wayne Batchis, associate professor of political science and legal studies, will speak about the First Amendment from 4:30-6 p.m., Wednesday, May 11, in 320 Gore Hall on the University of Delaware’s Newark campus.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will also include a discussion session and will feature a launch of Batchis’ new book, The Right’s First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech and the Return of Conservative Libertarianism, published in March by Stanford University Press.
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In the book, Batchis examines how the concept of constitutional free speech rights an issue closely associated in the 1960s with American political liberalism has been adopted and co-opted by conservatives. At the same time, he says, free market conservatives have come to embrace the once-unknown concept of freedom of commercial expression.
The Right’s First Amendment explores what these changes mean for the future of First Amendment interpretation.
The talk and discussion are sponsored by UD’s Legal Studies program.