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The John E. Sullivan Lecture The 31st Annual John E. Sullivan Lecture
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Vincent Blasi |
Vincent Blasi is the Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties at Columbia Law School and the James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. His undergraduate degree (in economics) is from Northwestern and his law degree is from the University of Chicago, where he studied with the legendary First Amendment scholar Harry Kalven, Jr. During his more than 40 years in law teaching, Professor Blasi has served on the law faculties of the University of Texas (1967-70) and the University of Michigan (1970-83), as well as Columbia (since 1983) and Virginia (since 1998). In addition, he has been a visiting professor at Stanford, the University of California Berkeley, and William & Mary. He has published many articles about the freedom of speech, including “The Checking Value in First Amendment Theory” (1977), “The Pathological Perspective and the First Amendment” (1985), “Milton’s Areopagitica and the Modern First Amendment” (1995), “Free Speech and Good Character” (1999), and “Holmes and the Marketplace of Ideas” (2005). His innovative casebook Ideas of the First Amendment (2006) introduced a history-of-ideas approach to the study of First Amendment law. In 1998, Professor Blasi was one of five law professors in the nation elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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