Mar 30/Cleveland: Visiting Scholar Philip Hamburger: Censorship and Death

Americans like to believe that prior licensing of speech and the press came to an end in the seventeenth century.  This was the sort of censorship that the Inquisition imposed on Galileo, that the English abandoned in 1695, and that the First Amendment most clearly prohibited.  Nonetheless, the federal government has revived the licensing of speech and the press.  It does this by means of committees known as "Institutional Review Boards," and although it claims that it imposes the licensing to protect Americans, it thereby licenses much academic speech and publication.  Professor Hamburger will discuss this reversion to seventeenth-century censorship and its consequences for Americans.
Professor Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is widely published in the area of constitutional law and its history.
Title:
Censorship and Death
Date/Time/Place:
Tuesday 3/20/2012
5:00pm - 6:00pm
1801 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
(Moot Court Room) [map]
Speaker:
Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law School
CLE credit: 
1.5 free hours
More:
https://www.law.csuohio.edu/newsevents/events/2012032017001281