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March 28A federal judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit by an activist who was arrested while filming protests in 2011. Now the filmmaker and her legal team will have a chance to investigate the city’s training policies regarding the First Amendment and handling the media.
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June 24Prof. Wolff stated that while the decision is “good,” the opinion doesn’t offer much guidance for the future of the First Amendment in schools.
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June 23Ben-Porath calls it “a good day when [the Court] sides with a student’s right to freely express her views, her feelings, and her criticism of the rules of the community of which she forms a part.”
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June 17Prof. Wolff pushes back on early characterizations of the Supreme Court decision as a narrow ruling.
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May 25Peter Jacobs L’22 draws on his experience as a journalist in exploring freedom of the press issues that have arisen since the George Floyd protests.
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Madeline Feldman L’22 GEd’22 chosen as a Next Generation Leader by the American Constitution SocietyMay 12Madeline Feldman L’22 GEd’22 joined the ACS as a 1L Representative and later became president of her chapter.
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April 13The court’s significant ruling cited “The Downstream Consequences of Pretrial Detention,” co-authored by Paul Heaton, Sandy Mayson, and Megan Stevenson.
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March 16The event brought together scholars and leading experts in the fields of law, sociology, and civil rights to engage in a robust conversation about the roots of mass incarceration and the prison abolition movement.
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February 16Tiffany Keung L’22 and Apratim Vidyarthi L’22 are winners of the 13th Annual First Amendment and Media Law Diversity Moot Court Competition and were also awarded Best Brief.
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January 12Prof. Roosevelt shares the historical background of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as well as his analysis of the House Democrats’ use of the provision in an impeachment article against President Trump.
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September 17
In addition to committing to publishing five issues annually, including Fall and Spring online supplements to the print edition, JCL also sponsors a yearly symposium on a cutting-edge topic of constitutional law and featuring notable constitutional law scholars.
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June 10Professor Wolff commissioned a quilt featuring the faces of his students, a unified work of art composed of many discrete and independent parts, like their dispersed but resilient class.
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April 30Michael Neal
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February 10Shreya Tewari
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January 27Maria Sevlievska
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December 27Raghav Mendiratta and Vibha Mohan
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June 24The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is launching a new campaign to reach out to documentary filmmakers.