Democracy and Academic Freedom: A Forum – Session 2

Event of Interest:
The College of Wooster will welcome three speakers for a series of lectures and dialogues titled Democracy and Academic Freedom, A Forum. Speakers will address a range of topics, reflecting on academic freedom in global, institutional, and educational contexts, with a Q&A session to follow. The series, which begins Wednesday, Sept. 3, includes the annual Constitution Day and Bell Lecture in Law on Sept. 17, and the Annual Lindner Lecture on Ethics on Oct. 15. Open to the public, the talks will take place in Gault Recital Hall of Scheide Music Center (525 E. University Street) at 7:30 p.m. and will also be live streamed on the College website.

The forum will continue Wednesday, Sept. 17, with the Constitution Day and Bell Distinguished Lectureship in Law: “The Art of the Deal: Free Speech in the Age of Trump” featuring Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Greene teaches courses in constitutional law, the law of the political process, and comparative constitutional law. He is the author of How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights is Tearing America Apart, as well as numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on constitutional law and theory. From January 2023 to December 2024, he served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel. He served as a law clerk to Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his A.B. from Harvard College.

More information is available at https://wooster.edu/2025/08/07/wooster-to-welcome-speakers-for-democracy-and-academic-freedom-a-forum-beginning-in-september/