I am now in the Twin Cities to attend the Journal of Law & Public Policy‘s fall symposium on “Free Speech and the U.S. Constitution” and present my work-in-progress “Solving the Free Speech Dilemma.” Note: Although the symposium will take place in person at the University of St Thomas School of Law in downtown Minneapolis, it will also be telecast for free (register here). The full program is below the fold (all times Central):

8:00 am – Welcome from Dean Nichols and JLPP Editor in Chief

8:15 am – Panel 1: Free Speech vs. Equal Protection

• Prof. David Schultz, Democracy and Disagreement: Reconciling a Thick Equal Protection with a Thin Theory of Free Speech

• Ms. Ainslee Johnson Brown, A Constitutional Examination of Drag Performance Bans

• Prof. Michael Smith, Social Media Regulation in the Wake of 303 Creative

• Prof. Steven Green, 303 Creative and the Corrosive Nature of Easy Decisions

9:30 am – Break

9:45 am – Panel 2: A Principled Defense of Free Speech

• Profs. Amna Khalid + Jeff Snyder, Threats to Academic Freedom and Free Expression on College Campuses

• Prof. Robert Kahn, Fatalism, Bravado, and Communist/Pacifist Dystopias: Where are Holmes and Brandeis Now?

10:30 am – Break

10:45 am – Keynote Speaker – Nadine Strossen, A Conversation with Nadine Strossen about Current Free Speech Issues

12:00 pm – Break

12:30 pm – Lunch served

1:15 pm – Panel 3: Redefining the Public Square

• Prof. Jennifer Safstrom, First Amendment Protections on Social Media

• Prof. Rachael Houston + Mr. Stephen Earnest, Defining the Modern Public Square: A Study of Federal Judicial Interpretations

• Prof. Kimberly Breedon, Contextual Erasure of Public Corruption in the Court’s First Amendment Campaign Finance Jurisprudence

2:15 pm – Break

2:30 pm – Panel 4: Combating “Bad Speech” and its Effects

• Prof. Brittany Raposa, Free Speech and the Right to Parent: Can Parents have Both?

• Prof. F. E. Guerra-Pujol, Free Speech Paradigm for the Internet Age: Truth Markets with Dominance Assurance Contracts

• Ms. Giovanna Voorn Montiero, The Duty of Care of Digital Platforms in Tackling Fake News in the Light of Freedom of Expression in Brazil

• Prof. Caitlin Ring Carlson, Constitutional or Catastrophic? Using Transparency Laws to Combat Hate Speech on Social Media

3:45 pm – Closing remarks