A Temple Law Community Conversation Free Speech on Campus

Moderated by Laura H. Carnell Professor Jeff Dunoff

Date: September 25, 2024

Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Location: Klein Hall – Room 1E

About The event

Over the last year, college campuses have seen a significant rise in student protests and demonstrations. In response, universities have sought to guarantee students’ Constitutional right to free speech, while also balancing student safety and a school’s educational mission. Please join us for a Community Conversation about free speech on campus featuring First Amendment scholar Professor Laura Little and constitutional law scholar Professor John Culhane, moderated by constitutional law scholar Professor Jeff Dunoff. Together they will discuss how free speech, student safety, and school mission interact on college campuses.

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Panelists

Laura E. Little

Laura E. Little, James G. Schmidt Chair in Law

Professor Laura E. Little serves as the James G. Schmidt Chair in Law. She specializes in federal courts, conflict of laws, and constitutional law. She teaches, lectures, and consults internationally on these subjects and is routinely engaged for training judges as well as for speeches at academic and judicial conferences. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including a sole-authored casebook, Conflict of Laws (2d ed. Aspen Wolters Kluwer 2018), two treatises: Federal Courts and First Amendment, both in Aspen Wolter Kluwer Publishing’s Examples and Explanations series, and Guilty Pleasures: Law and Comedy in America (Oxford 2019). Among her many awards for teaching and scholarship are several law school awards, a University-wide Lindback award, and Temple’s highest award for teaching, the University Great Teacher Award. The American Law Institute appointed Professor Little in 2014 to serve as Associate Reporter, Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws.

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Before entering academia, Professor Little practiced law in Philadelphia, litigating commercial cases and representing the print media in First Amendment cases. Prior to her law practice, Professor Little served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States (October Term 1986) and Judge James Hunter III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1985-1986).

Professor Little has several times taught in Temple’s programs in Tokyo, Japan and Rome, Italy. She has served as a visiting professor at University of Sydney (Australia), and University College of Cork (Ireland). She has also lectured frequently throughout China.

Professor Little’s scholarship has strong interdisciplinary character, integrating law, social science and humanities. She has travelled internationally lecturing on law and humor, and has written several studies on how legal doctrines regulate various forms of comedy. A sample of her writings is available on her publications page.

John Culhane

Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law Widener University Delaware Law School

John Culhane is Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Professor of Law at Delaware Law School (Widener University). He teaches in the areas of Torts, Constitutional Law, and Family Law. He has published some forty law review articles, and several books; the most recent of these is “More Than Marriage: Forming Families After Marriage Equality” (University of California Press 2023).

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His most recent project involved work on a draft of a proposed new United Nations Charter. He also serves on the Delaware Human Subjects Research Board.

A three-time winner of the Outstanding Faculty Member award at Delaware Law School, Prof. Culhane has taught Torts and Family Law at Temple’s Beasley School of Law since 2019. He lives in Philadelphia and can often be found in a body of water – pool, river, ocean, or lake.

Jeff Dunoff

Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law

Jeff Dunoff is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. His research and writing focuses on public international law, international regulatory regimes, international courts, international organizations, and interdisciplinary approaches to international law.

Dunoff has served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, Law and Public Affairs Fellow and Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s School for Public and International Affairs, a Professeur Invité, Faculté de Droit at the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Visiting Professor at the University of Rome (La Sapienza), Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Senior Fellow at Humboldt University, Visiting Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Professor at Central European University, and as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre at Cambridge University. Among other activities, he serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, as an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

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Professor Dunoff’s publications include International Legal Theory: Foundations and Frontiers (coeditor, with Mark A. Pollack, Cambridge University Press 2022), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations : The State of the Art (coeditor, with Mark A. Pollack, Cambridge University Press 2013); Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global Governance (coeditor, with Joel P. Trachtman, Cambridge University Press 2009); and International Law: Norms, Actors, Process (with Steven Ratner, Monica Hakimi, and David Wippman, Wolters Kluwer 2020), a leading textbook. Among other scholarly activities, he has served on the editorial boards of Global Constitutionalism, the Irish Yearbook of International Law, and a book series on The Politics of Transnational Law.

Before joining the Temple faculty, Professor Dunoff clerked for a federal court judge and practiced law in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in the representation of developing state governments in international and domestic litigations and arbitrations. Professor Dunoff received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Haverford College; his J.D., cum laude, from NYU School of Law; and his LL.M., with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he has served as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law and received the Thomas Chetwood Prize for distinguished academic performance.

More information regarding Professor Dunoff’s scholarship and activities can be found here.