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Floyd Abrams is a partner in the law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York and is the William J. Brennan, Jr. Visiting Professor of First Amendment Law at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He is the First Amendment Counsel of the Cornerstone Project of The Media Institute. Deborah Caldwell-Stone is Deputy Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom in Chicago. She also serves as the Deputy Executive Director of the Freedom To Read Foundation. Before coming to the ALA, she was an appellate attorney practicing in state and federal courts. Robert Corn-Revere is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Hogan & Hartson LLP, specializing in First Amendment and communications law. He was a legal advisor to former FCC commissioner James H. Quello and a former chief counsel of the FCC. He teaches at the Institute for Communications Law Studies, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University. He is chairman of The Media Institute’s First Amendment Advisory Council. Lucy Dalglish has been Executive Director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Va., since January 2000. She was a reporter and editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press for 13 years and an associate in the Minneapolis office of Dorsey & Whitney, specializing in First Amendment and media law for five years. Mark Goodman is a lawyer and has been Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center since 1985. He has been a guest faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and a lecturer in mass communications law at The American University and the University of Maryland’s University College, and has taught at Bowling Green State University. He was an author and editor of the Center’s book, Law of the Student Press. Kevin M. Goldberg is an associate with the firm of Cohn and Marks in Washington, D.C., who specializes in First Amendment and constitutional law issues. He received his J.D. with High Honors from The George Washington University National Law Center in 1995, where he was also the recipient of the Imogene Williford Constitutional Law Award. Mike Hiestand has been staff attorney at the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va., since 1991. In that time he has provided legal assistance to more than 8,000 student journalists and journalism educators nationwide. He is co-author of the Center’s book, Law of the Student Press. David L. Hudson, Jr. is an attorney with the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, funded by The Freedom Forum. He focuses on commercial speech, hate speech, obscenity/indecency, and cyberlibel. In addition to writing for The Freedom Forum’s online news service, he regularly contributes to Commercial Speech Digest and the American Bar Association’s Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases. Judith F. Krug is Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and Executive Director of the Freedom To Read Foundation. She is responsible for implementing ALA policies concerning intellectual freedom as embodied in the Library Bill of Rights, and educating librarians and the public about the importance of intellectual freedom in libraries. She is a noted speaker and author on the topic of intellectual freedom. Paul K. McMasters is First Amendment Ombudsman of The Freedom Forum in Arlington, Va. A 33-year veteran of journalism, he served previously as executive director of The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center and as associate editorial director of USA Today. He is a former national president of the Society of Professional Journalists. Robert M. O’Neil has, since 1990, been Founding Director of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville. He is also a professor of law at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses in free speech and press, including seminars on First Amendment and the arts and free expression in cyberspace. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Media Institute. Robert S. Peck is Senior Director of Legal Affairs and Policy Research at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America in Washington, D.C., where he practices constitutional law. He teaches constitutional law at the law schools at The American University and George Washington University. Previously, he served as First Amendment counsel for the Washington national office of the American Civil Liberties Union. Judith Platt is Director of Communications and Public Affairs and Director of the Freedom To Read Program at the Association of American Publishers in Washington. She is responsible for articulating the views of the U.S. book publishing industry on free speech issues and opposing attempts to undermine First Amendment rights. She is a Trustee of the ALA-affiliated Freedom To Read Foundation. Richard
M. Schmidt, Jr. has served as General Counsel of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors since 1969. Of
counsel to the Washington, D.C., law firm of Cohn and Marks, Mr. Schmidt is a
member of the Board of Trustees of the National Press Foundation.
He is a recipient of The Media Institute’s Freedom of Speech Award. Rodney
A. Smolla is the George Allen Professor of Law at the T.C. Williams School
of Law, University of Richmond. Previously
he was a law professor and director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at
the College of William and Mary. A graduate of Yale University and Duke Law School, he has
authored three treatises and several other books, and co-authored a casebook
on constitutional law. Virginia Stevens serves as the Legal Research Associate in the Office of the First Amendment Ombudsman at The Freedom Forum in Arlington, Va. After graduating from Georgetown University Law Center in May 2001, she will work as an associate at Spencer, Fane, Britt and Browne in Kansas City, Mo. Daniel E. Troy specializes in constitutional and appellate litigation at the Washington, D.C., firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding. He is also an associate scholar of legal studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Troy has published widely on the subject of commercial speech and on other constitutional issues. Kurt Wimmer is the managing partner of the London office of Covington and Burling, where he focuses on media, telecommunications, and Internet law. He chairs the firm’s Information Technology and Internet Practice Group, representing new media, television, online services, and new telecommunications providers. He is also chair of the Libel Defense Resource Center’s Cyberspace Committee. Laurence H. Winer is a professor of law and Faculty Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology at Arizona State University College of Law. He specializes in media law, constitutional law, and legal ethics. Prof. Winer received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (all in mathematics) from Boston University, and received his law degree from Yale Law School. He is a former editor in chief of the Jurimetrics Journal of Law, Science and Technology. The Editor: Richard T. Kaplar is Vice President of The Media Institute in Washington, D.C. He has written, edited, or produced over 40 books and monographs on a variety of First Amendment and communications policy topics. Mr. Kaplar is the author of Advertising Rights: The Neglected Freedom, and co-author of The Government Factor: Undermining Journalistic Ethics in the Information Age. |
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