Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy
Edited by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone
Author Information
Lee C. Bollinger became Columbia University's 19th president in 2002 and is the longest serving Ivy League president. He is Columbia's first Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Law School faculty, and one of the nation's foremost First Amendment scholars. Bollinger's books include: Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide Open: A Free Press for a New Century; Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era; Images of a Free Press; The Tolerant Society: Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in America. And, his books co-edited with Geoffrey R. Stone include The Free Speech Century and National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press. Bollinger serves as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. As president of the University of Michigan, Bollinger led the school's landmark civil rights litigation in Grutter v. Bollinger, a Supreme Court decision that for the first time upheld the constitutional right of colleges and universities to engage in affirmative action to advance diversity in higher education. Bollinger is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and the recipient of ten honorary degrees and numerous awards, including the National Humanitarian Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice and the National Equal Justice Award from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone earned his J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School in 1971, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of The University of Chicago Law Review. After serving as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States, Mr. Stone joined the faculty of The University of Chicago Law School in 1973. Mr. Stone has served as Dean of The University of Chicago Law School (1987-1994) and Provost of The University of Chicago (1994-2002). Mr. Stone is the author or co-author of many books on constitutional law. Among them are Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court (2020), The Free Speech Century (2018) co-authored with Columbia University President Lee Bollinger; Sex and the Constitution (2017); Top Secret: When Government Keeps Us In the Dark (2007); and Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime (2004), which received eight national book awards. Mr. Stone is the co-editor of one of the nation's leading constitutional law casebooks, chief editor of a twenty-volume series, Inalienable Rights, which is published by the Oxford University Press, and an editor of the Supreme Court Review.
Contributors:
Katherine Adams, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Apple
Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School and the founder and director of Yale's Information Society Project
Martin Baron, former Executive Editor, The Washington Post
Emily Bazelon, staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School
Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Lee C. Bollinger, President, and Seth Low Professor of the University, at Columbia University
Alex Chemerinsky, law clerk, United States District Court
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Hillary Clinton, former United States Secretary of State
Jelani Cobb, Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
Renée DiResta, technical research manager, Stanford Internet Observatory
evelyn douek, lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and associate research scholar at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Russ Feingold, President, American Constitution Society
Mary Anne Franks, Professor of Law and Michael R. Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair, University of Miami School of Law; President and Legislative & Tech Policy Director, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative
Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
Amy Klobuchar, United States Senator for Minnesota
Larry Kramer, President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, formerly Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean, Stanford Law School
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor and former Dean of Harvard Law School, serves on the board of GBH, public media in Boston
Mary Minow, presidential appointee under three administrations to the Institute of Museum and Library Services and library law consultant
Nell Minow, expert in corporate governance, an American film reviewer and author who writes and speaks frequently on film, media, and corporate governance and investing, and served on the board of public broadcaster WETA
Newton N. Minow, Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, the former Chairman of the FCC, and active participant in public broadcasting and media governance
Christina Paxson, President, Brown University
Nathaniel Persily, James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Kate Starbird, Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
David A. Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School
Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator for Rhode Island
Andrew Ceresney, Jeffrey P. Cunard, Courtney Dankworth, and David A. O'Neil Debevoise & Plimpton attorneys
