Permission to Speak Freely? Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy

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A symposium examining the speech rights of public employees—and the threats they face

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In our deeply polarized political environment, the question of how a democracy ought to manage the speech of some 22 million public employees is more important than ever. We'll examine this issue through a series of conversations about First Amendment, administrative, and labor law; democratic theory and political contestation; and the balance between transparency and autonomy.

The symposium, “Permission to Speak Freely? Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy,” is part of a collaboration between the Knight Institute and the Institute’s 2023-2024 Senior Visiting Research Scholar Sam Lebovic.

Co-sponsored by Columbia Law School and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

SCHEDULE
9:00AM – 9:30AM EDT: Registration
9:30AM – 9:45AM EDT: Welcome
9:45AM – 11:00AM EDT: Panel 1: Duty and Dissent: Public Employee Speech Rights and Their Limits
11:00AM – 11:15AM EDT: Break
11:15AM – 12:30PM EDT: Panel 2: Students, Teachers, and the Politics of Speech in Schools
12:30PM – 1:30PM EDT: Lunch
1:30PM – 2:45PM EDT: Panel 3: Academic Freedom and the First Amendment
2:45PM – 3:00PM EDT: Break
3:00PM – 4:15PM EDT: Panel 4: Protecting—and Punishing—Whistleblowers
4:15PM – 4:30PM EDT: Closing Remarks

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