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Beverley Becker is Associate Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association in Chicago, where she maintains the Intellectual Freedom Action Network. She received her M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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. From 1990 to 1994 he was a legal advisor to former FCC commissioner James H. Quello and in 1994 served as chief counsel of the FCC. Mr. Corn-Revere 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. Ashley Gauthier is the McCormick-Tribune
Legal Fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
She also lectures in communications law at The American University and
has authored numerous articles on First Amendment law.
Ms. Gauthier previously was a litigation attorney, and held legal and
public affairs positions with a publishing company and a radio station in
Albuquerque. 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. David L. Hudson, Jr. is a research attorney with the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. He serves as First Amendment contributing editor for the American Bar Association’s Preview of U.S. Supreme Court Cases. He writes regularly on First Amendment and employment law issues. Burton Joseph is the senior partner of the Chicago law firm Joseph,
Lichtenstein & Levinson. He
is active in a number of groups involved in First Amendment rights and civil
liberties, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Media Coalition,
American Library Association, Playboy Foundation, and Magazine Publishers of
America. He received his law
degree from DePaul University, and writes frequently on First Amendment
topics. 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. Tony Mauro is Supreme Court Correspondent
for Legal Times and American Lawyer
Media. He covered the Supreme
Court for USA TODAY and Gannett News
Service for 20 years. Mr. Mauro holds a Master’s degree from the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism.
He is the author of Illustrated
Great Decisions of the Supreme Court, and has contributed chapters to
three other books on the Supreme Court.
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. Prof. O’Neil is a former president of the University of Virginia. Kristina Osterhaus is an associate with
the firm of Wiley Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C., and works in the
areas of food and drug and communications law.
She received her J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1997 and
clerked for Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Florida from 1997 to 1998. 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. Kurt Wimmer is the managing partner of the London office of Covington & Burling,
where he focuses on media, telecommunications, and Internet law.
He chairs the firm’s Information Technology practice group,
representing new media, television, online services, and new
telecommunications providers. He
is also co-chair of the Libel Defense Resource Center’s International Media
Law 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. Harvey L. Zuckman is immediate past director of The Institute for
Communications Law Studies at The Catholic University of America in
Washington, D.C. He is a
professor of law at the university’s Columbus School of Law, and has written
extensively on First Amendment and media law subjects.
Prof. Zuckman is the co-author of Modern
Communication Law, a multi-volume treatise, and Mass Communications Law, a widely used student text.
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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