Campus Free Speech After October 7

Hon. Judge Lisa Branch (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit) and Hon. Judge Roy Altman (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida) moderate a discussion with Ilya Shapiro (Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies, Manhattan Institute) and Nadine Strossen (Senior Fellow, FIRE; and former ACLU President) about the free-speech climate on campus, which many have observed has worsened following the horrible attack on October 7, 2023—and again with the murder of Charlie Kirk during a campus debate in Utah. The panel will discuss why free speech is central to the Western tradition, particularly on campus. They will also discuss the significance of October 7 to the Jewish community, free speech controversies tied to this date, and campus anti-semitism. (Indeed, as reported in the Free Beacon, Mr. Shapiro was originally scheduled to deliver remarks about campus speech issues at the NYU Law School on October 7, but the school blocked him from speaking specifically on October 7.)

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