Public Discourse Projects: Discussion over Division
Date: Tuesday, January 30th at 12:00 pm
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School, Hazel Hall Room 215
Learn about civil discourse and talk with fellow students about some of today’s most pressing policy issues! This event will start with a short introduction to civil discourse. After this, you’ll talk in small groups about your various perspectives on topics such as free speech on campus.

Voices for Liberty Symposium on Civil Rights and Free Speech
Date: Friday, September 22nd, 2023 at 9:30 am
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School
This symposium brings together senior scholars and exciting new voices to present cutting-edge research on the role freedom of speech plays in advancing civil rights movements (past, present and future). Scholars will present new papers exploring whether free expression helps or harms the cause of social progress, entrenching an unjust status quo or providing critical support for groups wishing to challenge it. Topics include the free speech rights of BLM protestors, the impact of speech restrictions on disability rights, Section 230, and the censoring of abolitionist newspapers in the American south.

Voices for Liberty Spring 2023: Research Roundtable
Date: June 11-12, 2023
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School, Hazel Hall Room 215
The Center will host a research roundtable as part of its Voices for Liberty initiative. At the roundtable, original scholarship about the relationship between free speech and civil rights will be presented, discussed, and critiqued by a group of about twenty scholars and policy experts. For more information about this event, please contact VFLI@gmu.edu.

Public Discourse Projects: Discussion over Division
Date: Tuesday, February 28th at 12:00 pm
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School, Hazel Hall Room 215
Antonin Scalia Law School students are invited to chat about important policy topics and current events, while learning about each other’s perspectives. Participants will be matched with students of differing political views for engaging conversations.

Public Discourse Projects: Discussion over Division
Date: Wednesday, February 8th at 12:00 pm
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School, Hazel Hall Room 215
Antonin Scalia Law School students are invited to chat about important policy topics and current events, while learning about each other’s perspectives. Participants will be matched with students of differing political views for engaging conversations.

The Future of Rights: Frameworks, Trends, and Alternative Visions
Date: Friday, November 18th at 12 p.m.
Location: Zoom
The concept of rights has informed our understanding of the freedom of persons in the context of the power of the state. But our understanding of the content of rights has changed over time. How were rights understood in the past, and how do we understand them in the present? And how can we use our answers to those questions to better inform our understanding of rights in the future? These questions, and others like them, will be addressed at this half-day, online conference.

Public Discourse Projects: Discussion over Division
Date: Wednesday, November 2nd at 12:00 pm
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School, Hazel Hall Room 215
Antonin Scalia Law School students are invited to chat about important policy topics and current events, while learning about each other’s perspectives. Participants will be matched with students of differing political views for engaging conversations.

Public Discourse Projects: Discussion over Division
Date: Tuesday, October 25th at 5:00 pm
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School, Hazel Hall Room 215
Antonin Scalia Law School students are invited to chat about important policy topics and current events, while learning about each other’s perspectives. Participants will be matched with students of differing political views for engaging conversations.

Beyond “Defensive Crouch,” Religious Freedom Conference
Date: March 24-25, 2022
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School
This conference brought together top law and religion scholars, litigators, and policy experts to explore: the goods and values that religious exercise furthers, including institutional religious exercise; how religious values can not only serve, but even better promote the values of equality, dignity, and freedom as currently articulated by the state; and how religious institutions might better understand and communicate the social worth of religion and religious freedom. Findings were presented in four panels over the course of two days.

Public Discourse Projects: How has Social Media Changed the Political and Social Landscape?
Date: Tuesday, March 8 at 12:00 pm
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School
Students participated in lunch discussions about how mass engagement with social media has affected public discourse, and whether the change has been for better or worse. Questions? Email liberty@gmu.edu.

The Moral Case for Off-label Marketing
Date: March 1st at noon
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School
In this presentation, Dr. Jessica Flanigan, the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values and an associate professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL) at the University of Richmond, discussed the dangers of restricting off-label drug marketing and why manufacturers should be legally permitted to distribute truthful information about prescription drugs.

Public Discourse Projects: Discussion over Division
Date: Wednesday, February 23 at 5:00 pm
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School
Antonin Scalia Law School students were invited to chat about important policy topics and current events, while learning about each other’s perspectives. Participants were matched with students of differing political views for engaging conversations.