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Weekly Faculty in the News, 5/15

A roundup of faculty appearances in news sources this week.

5/7 – The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin highlighted Professor Steven Heyman’s April 25th lecture on the First Amendment, “To Drink the Cup of Fury: Funeral Picketing, Public Discourse, and the First Amendment.” The lecture, drawing on Professor Heyman’s 2012 article of the same name, analyzed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Snyder v. Phelps, which upheld Westboro Baptist Church’s First Amendment right to picket the funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq.

5/7 – Chicago-Kent’s Center for Access to Justice and Technology (CAJT), directed by Professor Ron Staudt, was highlighted with CALI in a post at Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites (“Mass. Courts Launch Self-Help Site for Child Support Cases“). The post reported that a new Massachusetts self-help legal resource utilizes CAJT’s guided-interview tool A2J Author.

5/8 – Professor Steven Heyman was quoted in a Medill Reports story on the Illinois Terrorism Act and free speech (“Attorneys and activists say Illinois terrorism law is chilling free speech“).

5/10 – Dean Harold Krent wrote an op-ed piece for the Orlando Sentinel about the implications of random drug testing in schools (“Random testing can send students a harmful message“).

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