Political Speech: The Fabled “Carte Blanche” Being Put to the Test in Universities and Law Firms Across the Country

$45

FREE FOR BHBA MEMBERS

Join first, then login to BHBA+ to access this program.

Add to watchlist

View watchlist

Political Speech: The Fabled “Carte Blanche” Being Put to the Test in Universities and Law Firms Across the Country

Credit Hours:

1.00

Specialty Area:

None

Credit Type:

General

Original Air Date:

December 14, 2023

Credit Eligible In:

California

You may be able to self apply for credits in states not listed. BHBA provides CLE accreditation as described above. Email for accreditation information in your state.

While “political speech” may have constitutional and legislative protections, it is not a carte blanche to speak without consequences. In recent times, as conflicts and tempers rise and emotions soar, individuals have taken to social media and other public forums to disseminate what some might characterize as political speech while others condemn it as hate speech, incitement to violence, or at best, offensive remarks made in poor judgment. Consequences for such speech have ranged from public shaming via social media to employment termination. Our multi-disciplinary panel of experts will examine political speech as it stands today, the real-world impact, ramifications in the spheres of education and employment, and the future litigation we can expect.

Beth Schroeder

|

Partner Raines Feldman Littrell LLP

Beth Schroeder is a preeminent Labor & Employment counsel. She has over three decades of experience in representing employers in all aspects of employment and labor law, including the defense of employment-related lawsuits involving wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, wage and hour issues and related claims both individual and class action.

Professor Nadine Strossen

|

Professor of Law Emerita New York Law School

Nadine Strossen, the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School and past President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008), is a Senior Fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education) and a leading expert and frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties, who has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. She serves on the advisory boards of the ACLU, Academic Freedom Alliance, Heterodox Academy, National Coalition Against Censorship, and the University of Austin.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky

|

Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law

Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law.

Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law. Before that he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004-2008, and from 1983-2004 was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. From 1980-1983, he was an assistant professor at DePaul College of Law.

He is the author of sixteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent books are Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism (2022) and Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (2021).

Nadira Imam

|

Senior Associate Law Offices of Lawrence H. Jacobson

Nadira Imam is the Senior Associate Attorney at Lawrence H. Jacobson, APC in Beverly Hills, California. She handles a wide variety of general transactional matters for businesses and individuals throughout California. Her practice focuses primarily in the areas of business and corporate law, estate planning and real estate including entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, succession planning, trademark applications, real estate finance, brokerage law and mortgage brokerage law, escrow and title insurance matters, real estate secured transactions, purchase, sale, finance and leasing of commercial, industrial and residential property, tax free exchanges and structured tenancies in common.