EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012

EVENT: Robert Post, dean of the Yale Law School and the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, will give the 2012 University of Michigan Senate’s Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

“The Constitutional Meaning of Academic Freedom” is free to the public.

Post, an expert on constitutional law, the First Amendment, legal history and equal protection, has written and edited numerous books, including “Democracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State” and “For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom.”

The lecture is named for three U-M faculty members—Chandler Davis, Clement Markert and Mark Nickerson—who in 1954 were called to testify before a Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities. All invoked constitutional rights and refused to answer questions about their political associations. All three were suspended from the university. Markert was subsequently reinstated and Davis and Nickerson were dismissed.

PLACE: Honigman Auditorium, 100 Hutchins Hall, U-M Law School. Central Campus map: http://www.umich.edu/~info/mapsAndDirections.html#anchor_centralCampus

SPONSORS: Academic Freedom Lecture Fund; American Association of University Professors, U-M chapter and Michigan Conference; U-M offices of the President, Provost and Vice President for Global Communications and Strategic Initiatives; U-M Law School; U-M Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs; and an anonymous donor.

INFORMATION: http://www.umich.edu/~aflf