Agenda

Monday, June 2, 2025

9:00 AM – 9:10 AM: Opening Remarks and Day Overview

  • Katherine Newman, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of California

9:10 AM – 10:15 AM: Keynote

  • Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Director, Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and Director, Democratic Knowledge Project, Harvard University

Discussant:

  • Sean Gailmard, Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy, and Chair of the University Committee on Academic Freedom

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM: Break


10:30 AM – 11:45 AM: Basic principles and the approach to academic freedom and free speech on campus

Discussants:

  • Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley Law, Co-Chair of the National Advisory Board, University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
  • Sigal Ben-Porath, MRMJJ Presidential Professor, University of Pennsylvania
  • Robert Quinn, Executive Director, Scholars at Risk Network
  • Emerson Sykes, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

 Moderator:

  • Michelle Deutchman, Executive Director, UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM: Lunch


12:30 PM – 1:45 PM: DEI and academic freedom (Concurrent Session)

Discussants:

  • john a. powell, Professor of Law and Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, Berkeley Law
  • Brian Soucek, Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Fellow, UC Davis School of Law
  • Peter W. Wood, President, National Association of Scholars

Moderator:

  • Natasha Warikoo, Lenore Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Tufts University

12:30 PM – 1:45 PM: Title VI and academic freedom and free speech (Concurrent Session)

Discussants:

  • Robert Corn-Revere, Chief Counsel, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
  • Veena Dubal, Professor of Law, UC Irvine
  • Eugene Volokh, Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA

Moderator:

  • Mary-Rose Papandrea, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1:45 PM – 2:00 PM: Break


2:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Tenure and academic freedom (Concurrent Session)

Discussants:

  • David Rabban, Dahr Jamail, Randal Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas, Austin, and Former General Counsel and Former Chair of AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
  • Henry Reichman, Former Chair, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay

Moderator:

  • Margaret Roberts, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego and Member of the University Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom

2:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Academic freedom, protests, and democratic governance on campus (Concurrent Session)

Discussants:

  • Josiah Beharry, Student Regent, Ph. D candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanities, UC Merced
  • Rana Jaleel, Associate Professor on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, UC Davis and Chair of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
  • Risa Lieberwitz, Professor of Labor and Employment Law, School of Industrial and Labor Relations and Academic Director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University and Former General Counsel of the AAUP, and Member of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
  • Keith Whittington, Davis Boies Professor of Yale Law School and Founding Chair of the Academic Freedom Alliance’s Academic Committee

Moderator:

  • Chris Hoofnagle, Faculty Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and Professor of Law in Residence, UC Berkeley

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM: Break


3:30 PM – 4:45 PM: Roundtable: External intervention in the university and institutional neutrality

Presented by the University Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom

Discussants:

  • Sean Gailmard, Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy, and Chair of the University Committee on Academic Freedom
  • Howard Gillman, Chancellor, UC Irvine, and Co-Chair of the National Advisory Board, University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
  • Barry O’Neill, Professor of Political Science, UCLA, and Vice Chair of the University Committee on Academic Freedom

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM: Closing Remarks