CFP96 Plenary Session

Limiting On-Line Speech On Campus

• Recording of the session (in RealAudio format)
• Paper by Declan McCullagh
• Paper by Harvey Silverglate

Universities own the wires, provide equipment, and feel deeply responsible for protecting their students, their employees, and their public image. Students value privacy and have a penchant for on-line mischief. Arthur Miller, with a distinguished panel drawn from university, legal, and journalism communities, will use the Socratic method and a series of knotty (not so) hypotheticals to explore resulting conflicts. What are the bounds of the student on-line word?

Moderator: Arthur R. Miller is the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is an authority on the law of privacy, copyright, and civil procedure, and is the legal editor on ABC's Good Morning America.

Invited participants:

• Greg Jackson is MIT Director of Academic Computing, and newly appointed Associate Provost for Information Technology at the University of Chicago. Contact: gjackson@mit.edu / (617) 253-3712

• Jonathan Chiel was an Assistant US Attorney in Boston until 1994. He is currently practicing with Choate Hall & Stewart.

• Declan McCullagh was president of the student body at Carnegie Mellon University for the 1994-1995 academic year. Contact: declan@eff.org

• Jeff Swope is a partner in the Boston law firm of Palmer & Dodge and an expert in university legal issues. Contact: jswope@palmerdodge.com / (617) 573-0181

• Peter Toren is with the Computer Crime Unit of the US Department of Justice Criminal Division.

• Harvey Silverglate is a partner in the Boston law firm of Silverglate & Good. He specializes in criminal defense and civil liberties work, and recently defended (with his partner Andrew Good) David LaMacchia. Contact: has@world.std.com / (617) 523-5933

• Rikki Klieman is an Anchor at Court TV in New York and remains of Counsel to the Boston firm of Klieman, Lyons, Schindler, Gross & Pabian. She teaches trial advocacy at Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers' College, The National Criminal Defense College, and at Harvard Law School, among others. She was a Professor at Boston University School of Law, and served on the Advisory Committee to the United States Supreme Court on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

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