Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy

About

Lee C. Bollinger became Columbia University's 19th president in 2002 and is the longest serving Ivy League president. He is Columbia's first Seth Low Professor of the University a member of the Law School faculty and one of the country's foremost First Amendment scholars. Each fall semester he teaches Freedom of Speech and Press to Columbia undergraduate students. His latest book The Free Speech Century co-edited with Geoffrey R. Stone was published in the fall of 2018 by Oxford University Press. Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone earned his J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School in 1971 where he served as Editor-in-Chief of The University of Chicago Law Review. After serving as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States Mr. Stone joined the faculty of The University of Chicago Law School in 1973. Mr. Stone has served as Dean of The University of Chicago Law School (1987-1994) and Provost of The University of Chicago (1994-2002). Mr. Stone is the author or co-author of many books on constitutional law. Among them are Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court (2020) The Free Speech Century (2018) co-authored with Columbia University President Lee Bollinger; Sex and the Constitution (2017); Top Secret: When Government Keeps Us In the Dark (2007); and Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime (2004) which received eight national book awards. Mr. Stone is the co-editor of one of the nation's leading constitutional law casebooks chief editor of a twenty-volume series Inalienable Rights which is published by the Oxford University Press and an editor of the Supreme Court Review.