Protecting Speech and Protest: New Insights
The past few months and years have seen waves of protest movements across U.S. college campuses and city centers. Our freedoms of speech and assembly protect protest, and yet aggressive actions between protestors and government bodies quickly make those rights feel murky. Who decides how and where protest can occur, and when it must end? How do we understand recent protest events in New York and Texas?
Join FIRE and Voices for Liberty for some fresh analysis into how time, place, and manner regulations impact protest. In principle these neutral limits ensure safety and guarantee that government does not favor particular views. However, in practice these limits are also used to disproportionately burden certain viewpoints and protest movements. Alec Greven, J.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Law School an author of a new paper on this topic joins Ronnie London, General Counsel at FIRE to discuss these limits and how courts can adopt solutions that protect speech in a consistent and principled fashion.
