Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic. Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. His most recent book, Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed, published in 2016, examines the strategies civil society organizations employ to change constitutional law. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy.

He is on leave from Georgetown University, where he has taught constitutional law and criminal justice since 1990, and is the Hon. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and Mahanoy Area School District v. He has litigated many constitutional cases in the Supreme Court, including Texas v. He is the author of Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media (2022) and the award-winning History of Freedom of Expression in Denmark.ĭavid Cole is the National Legal Director of the ACLU. Jacob Mchangama is the founder and executive director of Justitia, a think tank focusing on human rights and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia’s Global Freedom of Expression Center. Research was provided by Sam Desai, Lana Ulrich, and Colin Thibault. This episode was produced by Melody Rowell and engineered by Dave Stotz. Please subscribe to We the People and L ive at the National Constitution Center on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher , or your favorite podcast app. Joining president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen to discuss that storied history-from Martin Luther’s posting his 95 Theses, to state laws regarding social media-and examine defenses of free speech are Jacob Mchangama, author of Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, and David Cole, National Legal Director of the ACLU.

While the idea of freedom of speech may be closely associated with the American constitutional tradition under the First Amendment today, its origins go back thousands of years, and its ideals have been expressed in civilizations around the world.

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