Wedneaday, 23 June - 19:00 (UK)/ 11:00 (PT)/ 14:00 (ET)
This event is free and open to the public.
In our July event, Professor Mary Anne Franks (Louisiana & Wadham 1999) will discuss her book Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment.
Dr. Mary Anne Franks is the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law at George Washington Law School. Her areas of expertise include First Amendment law, Second Amendment law, law and technology, criminal law, and family law. She is also the President and Legislative & Tech Policy Director of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), the leading U.S.-based nonprofit organization focused on image-based sexual abuse. Her model legislation on the non-consensual distribution of intimate images (NDII, sometimes referred to as “revenge porn”) has served as the template for multiple state and federal laws. She is the author of two books: Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment (Bold Type Books, 2024) and The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech (Stanford Press, 2019). Her scholarship has also appeared in publications such as the Harvard Law Review, the California Law Review, and UCLA Law Review, and her popular writing has been featured in the New York Times, Ms Magazine, and Slate, among others. She is an Affiliate Fellow with the Yale Law School Information Society Project and a Fellow with the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a doctorate from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court and the District of Columbia.
Q & A:
Please feel free to submit any questions in advance to alumni@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk or you can use the Q&A function within Zoom to ask questions directly during the live event.
Part of the Lifelong Fellowship portfolio, The Scholars’ Library is a monthly book talk series, where Rhodes alumni can come together to present, discover and debate their literary works. If you’re interested in getting involved, please reach out to Nayana Niji at alumni@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk