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Should the Executive Eliminate DEI in Education? Debating the Constitutionality of DEI
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Sep 1 2025
Monday 5:30 p.m. EDT    

Should the Executive Eliminate DEI in Education? Debating the Constitutionality of DEI

Vermont Student Chapter

Chase Community Center and on Teams
164 Chelsea Street
South Royalton, VT 05068
Speakers:
Alison E. Somin • Peter Teachout
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Affirmative Action • Civil Rights • Constitution • Education Policy • Supreme Court
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Freedom of the Press in the Era of Misinformation
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Freedom of the Press in the Era of Misinformation

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Vermont Law - Chase Center
164 Chelsea St
South Royalton, VT 05068
Speakers:
Tara A. Smith
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First Amendment • Telecommunications & Electronic Media • Free Speech & Election Law
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The First Amendment and Social Media Censorship
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Nov 15 2024
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The First Amendment and Social Media Censorship

Vermont Student Chapter

Vermont Law: Chase Center
164 Chelsea St
South Royalton, VT 05068
Speakers:
Daniel Lyons
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First Amendment • Separation of Powers • Regulatory Transparency Project
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Alison E. Somin

Alison E. Somin

Legal Fellow, Center for the Separation of Powers, Pacific Legal Foundation

Biography

Alison Somin joined Pacific Legal Foundation in May 2020 as a legal fellow in the Center for the Separation of Powers and part of the equality before the law practice group.

Before joining the Pacific Legal Foundation team, Alison was a special assistant and counsel for over a decade to Gail Heriot, a member of the bipartisan United States Commission on Civil Rights. She also has deep roots in the liberty movement. Alison was a Koch Associate at the National Federation for Independent Business Legal Foundation and, during law school, completed summer clerkships at the Institute for Justice and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. She holds a J.D. from Emory University School of Law and an A.B. in history from Dartmouth College.

Her work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Daily Journal, Texas Journal of Law and Politics, and The Federalist Society’s Engage magazine and blog.

She lives in northern Virginia with her husband Ilya; two children; and golden retriever Willow. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, baking and cooking, children’s art projects, and training and exercising Willow.

 

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Peter Teachout

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Tara A. Smith

Tara A. Smith

Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

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Tara Smith is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught since 1989. A specialist in moral, legal, and political philosophy, her several books include Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System (2015), The First Amendment – Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom (2024), and Egoism Without Permission – The Moral Psychology of Ayn Rand’s Ethics (2024). Professor Smith’s interests in legal philosophy center around proper methodology in judicial review, First Amendment questions of intellectual freedom, and Fourth Amendment questions of privacy.
 

 

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Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Boston College Law School; Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Boston College Law School

Biography

Professor Lyons is a Professor and Associate Dean at Boston College Law School. He specializes in telecommunications and tech policy, energy, and administrative law. Before joining the faculty, he practiced at the firm of Munger, Tolles and Olson in Los Angeles. He also clerked for the Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Professor Lyons is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he has written over 250 blog posts on tech policy issues, including net neutrality, telecommunications regulation, First Amendment issues with tech regulation, and generative AI.

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