Lock ‘Em Up! How State Legislatures Are Criminalizing Protests

Jeff Filipovits’ practice is representing individuals whose civil rights have been violated by government actors. He has represented organizations including the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network and Prison Legal News, and spoken at seminars sponsored by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the Georgia Chiropractic Association, and the Urban Fellows Program at Georgia State University. In 2011, he received the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network’s Humanitarian of the Year Award. In 2013, he served as the Chairperson for the Mental Health Committee for the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. In 2014, He was named the Appellate Lawyer of the Year by DODD, a group of lawyers devoted to DUI defense. He is a member of the National Lawyers Guild, the National Police Accountability Project, and the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Sabine von Mering teaches German Language and Culture and European Perspectives on Climate Change in the Department of German Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures. She is a member of the core faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, a member of the program faculty in the Environmental Studies Program and an affiliate with the Minor in Creative Arts for Social Transformation (CAST). Her translation of Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning’s call to action Beginning to End the Climate Crisis is coming out with Brandeis University Press in April 2023. She is currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook on Grassroots Climate Activism. Her co-edited volume “Antisemitism on Social Media” (Routledge, 2022) was favorably reviewed here. Her previous co-edited volumes are “Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US” (Routledge, 2013), as well as “Russian-Jewish Emigration after the Cold War: Perspectives from Germany, Israel, Canada, and the United States” (2006) and “International Green Politics” (2002). As director of the Center for German and European Studies, she organizes lectures, conferences, and cultural events in the interest of promoting transatlantic dialogue. Professor von Mering is a local affiliate with the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Brian Hauss is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, where he focuses on free expression issues. Since joining the ACLU in 2012, he has litigated cases defending the First Amendment rights of writers, journalists, media organizations, activists, advocacy groups, labor unions and private citizens. His lawsuits challenging state restrictions on boycotts of Israel are featured in the documentary film “Boycott.” He regularly discusses First Amendment issues in the media and at law schools throughout the country. Brian was a 2021-22 Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School and served as a law clerk to the Hon. Marsha S. Berzon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Stephen Rohde is a constitutional scholar, lecturer, writer, political activist and retired civil rights lawyer. He is a past a president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, a founder and Chair of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, past President of the ACLU of Southern California, a Past Chair of Bend the Arc: a Jewish Partnership for Justice, and is on the board of Death Penalty Focus. He is the author of two books American Words of Freedom: The Words That Define Our Nation and Freedom of Assembly and co-author of Foundations of Freedom: A Living History of Our Bill of Rights. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Truthout, American Prospect, Truthdig and Ms. Magazine and is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books and Los Angeles Lawyer magazine. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Columbia Law School.