Phelps Lecture Series Presents Lillian BeVier on Freedom, Fairness, and the F-Word: Tuesday, November 17, 5:00 p.m.
“FREEDOM, FAIRNESS, AND THE F-WORD:
REFLECTIONS ON THE YIN AND YANG OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT”
LILLIAN R. BeVIER
David And Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor Of Law
University Of Virginia Law School
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009, 5:00 P.M.
TULANE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
JOHN GIFFEN WEINMANN HALL • ROOM 110
Reception to follow in the Berkett Multipurpose Room
Lillian BeVier is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia Law School. Professor BeVier is a graduate of Smith College and Stanford University Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. She has been a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia Law School since 1973. At Virginia, she has taught Torts, Property, Intellectual Property, Trademark and Unfair Competition, Constitutional Law and Freedom of Speech and Press.
In 2006, Professor BeVier received the University of Virginia Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award. Among other honors, Professor BeVier was awarded an honorary S.J.D. degree by Suffolk University in 1998, and in the fall of 2003 she was a visiting scholar at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. She served as a member and the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation from 2003 until 2009.
Professor BeVier’s has published widely and her scholarship has addressed a range of topics. But her principal contributions have been in the area of the First Amendment. She has written about such issues as the political speech principle, the right to know, the public forum, the journalist’s privilege, and the intersection of free speech and copyright law. Recently Professor BeVier has focused on the First Amendment implications of campaign-finance regulations.
Phelps Lecture Series was inaugurated in 1992 to honor Ashton Phelps, Sr.. Mr. Phelps was a distinguished Tulane Law School graduate (L’37), who practiced law at Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie and Sims, served as Publisher of The Times-Picayune and as Vice Chairman of Tulane’s Board of Administrators. The Lecture operates under the direction of the Ashton Phelps Chair of Constitutional Law, established in 1983, by the S.I. Newhouse Foundation and The Times-Picayune. The Phelps Lecture is dedicated to First Amendment law and related fields, because of Mr. Phelps’ lifelong activities as a newspaper attorney and newspaper publisher.
