James Weinstein, the Amelia Lewis Professor of Constitutional Law and Faculty Fellow in the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the College of Law, will deliver a paper on Wednesday, May 26, at the University of Cambridge Law School.

 

Weinstein will discuss his paper on freedom of speech and political legitimacy at the monthly seminar of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy.

 

Weinstein’s areas of academic interest are constitutional law, especially free speech, as well as jurisprudence and legal history. He is co-editor of Extreme Speech and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2009), author of Hate Speech, Pornography, and the Radical Attack On Free Speech Doctrine (Westview Press, 1999), and has written numerous articles in law review symposia on a variety of free speech topics, including: obscenity doctrine, institutional review boards, commercial speech, database protection, campaign finance reform, the relationship between free speech and other constitutional rights, hate crimes, and campus speech codes. He has also written several articles on the history of personal jurisdiction and its implication for modern doctrine. Weinstein is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge.