Jack Balkin Is Guest Speaker on April 13

Akron, Ohio, March 27, 2007 - Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, will deliver a speech titled “Freedom of Speech in the Digital Age” at 3 p.m. on Friday, April 13 at The University of Akron Martin University Center, 105 Fir Hill.

The event, held in cooperation with The University of Akron College of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Communication, School of Law and the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, is free and open to the public. Free parking is available at the center.

This program is made possible by support from the Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, through the National Endowment for the Humanities' We the People initiative: strengthening the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. Additional support is provided from community sponsors the Akron Bar Association and Akron Press Club.

Balkin received his doctoral degree in philosophy from Cambridge University, and his bachelor of arts and Juris Doctor degrees from Harvard University. He served as a clerk for Judge Carolyn Dineen King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and founder and director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and the new information technologies.

Balkin writes political and legal commentary at the weblog Balkinization. His books include Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life, Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (5th ed., with Brest, Levinson, Amar and Siegel), Legal Canons (with Sanford Levinson), What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said and The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds, co-authored with Beth Simone Noveck.

The Constitutional Law Center at The University of Akron School of Law was established by the U.S. Congress in 1987 to commemorate the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. The primary purpose of the center is to promote scholarship concerning the U.S. Constitution, including its Amendments, to commemorate the creation of that document and help illuminate its application to modern times. The center houses the John F. Seiberling Chair in Constitutional Law, sponsors conferences, conducts research on constitutional issues and hosts the Ralph Regula Lecture. For more information, visit www.uakron.edu/law.

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