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EDUCAUSE Live! September 17, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Constitution Day 2008: Free Speech in Cyberspace

Special Guest

Robert M. O'NeilView Event Archives Robert M. O'Neil
Director
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression

Robert M. O’Neil became founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in August 1990 after serving five years as president of the University of Virginia. He served on the university’s law faculty until June 2007, teaching courses in constitutional law of free speech and church and state, the first amendment and the arts, and a new course entitled Free Speech in Cyberspace. Though officially professor emeritus, he continues to teach a first amendment clinic.

O’Neil has authored several books, including The Rights of Public Employees, Classrooms in the Crossfire, Free Speech in the College Community, The First Amendment and Civil Liability, and Academic Freedom in the Wired World, as well as many articles in law reviews and other journals. He holds three degrees from Harvard (AB, AM, and LLB) and honorary degrees from Beloit College and Indiana University.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Robert M. O’Neil, and the topic will be "Constitution Day 2008: Free Speech in Cyberspace."

This webcast provides a brief overview of several novel and emerging dimensions of free expression in digital communications: how the Supreme Court has dealt with Internet speech under the First Amendment, problems posed by the content of web pages on university servers, the emerging challenge of "invasive" sites like Juicycampus.com, the largely fruitless quest for legal relief by victims of cyberattacks (including the challenge of "unmasking" anonymous critics), and the status of "sexually explicit" material on college and university servers.

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