Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime

Legal scholar GEOFFREY STONE will discuss his recently published book, "Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime."

Geoffrey R. Stone, one of the nation's foremost authorities on the First Amendment, is the Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago since 1973, and served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1987 to 1994 and as provost of the University of Chicago from 1994 to 2002. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Law Institute, and an editor of the "Supreme Court Review" since 1991. In addition to his teaching, administrative, and scholarly activities, Mr. Stone has participated in a variety of constitutional litigation over the years, including: working with the ACLU in representing the Nazis in the Skokie controversy in the 1970s; representing President Bill Clinton in the Supreme Court in the Paula Jones case in the 1990s; representing Fred Korematsu, who was one of 120,000 individuals of Japanese descent interned by the U.S. government during World War II; and serving as a "friend of the court" in the 2004 Guantanamo Bay case in the U.S. Supreme Court. “PERILOUS TIMES: Free Speech in Wartime,” was published by W.W. Norton in October 2004.

Mr. Stone's talk will be followed by a reception at 7:30 p.m.