On Thursday, I have the pleasure of debating Harvard Professor Randall Kennedy on the question “Does Harvard support free speech and intellectual diversity?” I will be taking the opposing position.
Professor Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard and the author of seven books, including Race, Crime, and the Law; Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal; The Persistence of the Color Line; For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law; and Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture.
The debate will be open to the public. I hope to see some of our Bostonian blog community at the event. You may register in person or online here: cvent.me/B0ONaD #harvard #freespeech #intellectual #diversity #policy
It will be begin at 12:20 at Harvard Law School on Thursday, October 17th.
I welcome the opportunity for a civil and substantive discussion of free speech and intellectual diversity in academia.
I wish to thank Professor Kennedy, Harvard Law School, and the sponsors, including Harvard Alumni for Free Speech, the Harvard Federalist Society, The Steamboat Institute, and the Adolph Coors Foundation.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
