JCRC Town Hall on The First Amendment and Israel on Campus

On-campus activism regarding the Israeli and Palestinian conflict is raising important legal questions related to free speech. Where’s the line? What constitutes hate speech? How do protests preventing the expression of opposing viewpoints fit in? Join JCRC for an important panel with Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law, ACLU Senior Counsel Alan Schlosser, and a Jewish student leader as they discuss the challenges, constitutional legality and Jewish student perspectives around talking about Israel on campus. This discussion panel will be moderated by Sue Fishkoff of the J. Weekly and is part of a year-long consensus-building process at JCRC.

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Interests: Israel, Meetings, Young Adults
Date: 
January 23, 2018
TIME: 
12:00 AM
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Location: 
UC Hastings College of the Law
City: 
San Francisco

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Organized By: 
Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)
Co-organizers: 
San Francisco State Hillel
Event Contact Person: 
Gabi Kuhn
415.977.7401
gkuhn@jcrc.org
Speakers: 
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law
Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law.
Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Political Science. Before that he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004-2008, and from 1983-2004 was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. He also has taught at DePaul College of Law and UCLA Law School. He teaches Constitutional Law, First Amendment Law, Federal Courts, Criminal Procedure, and Appellate Litigation.
He is the author of ten books, including The Case Against the Supreme Court, published by Viking in 2014, and two books published by Yale University Press in 2017, Closing the Courthouse Doors: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable and Free Speech on Campus (with Howard Gillman). He also is the author of more than 200 law review articles. He writes a weekly column for the Sacramento Bee, monthly columns for the ABA Journal and the Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.
In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January 2017, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States.
Education
B.S., Northwestern University (1975)
J.D., Harvard Law School (1978)
Alan Schlosser, ACLU Senior Counsel
Alan L. Schlosser has litigated numerous landmark cases during his decades-long tenure at the organization, including Rodriguez v. California Highway Patrol and California First Amendment Coalition v. Woodford.

He joined the ACLU-NC as Staff Counsel in 1976 and served as Managing Attorney from 1994 to 2000. In 2001, Schlosser took on the role of Legal Director, overseeing the affiliate's litigation strategy.

Schlosser came to the ACLU-NC from Boston, where he worked as the sole staff attorney outside California and Arizona for the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO. He was an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, in New York City and then a partner at Eiden, Imhoff, Schlosser & Solomon in Santa Barbara. He has taught law at University of San Francisco School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, and Columbia Law School.
A graduate of Williams College, Schlosser received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he served as Urban Affairs Editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Rachael Cunningham, San Francisco State Student Leader
Rachael Cunningham has recently graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in International Relations. She has been involved in Hillel since her sophomore year as a Resetting the Table Fellow, a Koret Promotional Intern, and a David Project intern. Rachael has also been a part of committees on SFSU's campus-the Presidents Task Force for Campus Climate and the Ad Hoc Work Group on Equity & Social Justice Educational Outreach. She has been involved in working to address the anti-semitism on campus and encourage the inclusion of all students at San Francisco State.
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