Live at the National Constitution Center

National First Amendment Summit


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The National Constitution Center, in partnership with a coalition of leading free speech organizations, is convened a National First Amendment Summit on September 13, 2023 to discuss the increasing threats to freedom of expression and to celebrate the opening of the Center's new First Amendment gallery.

This program is presented in partnership with the Freedom ForumFIRE, the First Amendment Watch at NYUPEN Americaand the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.


Keynote: A Conversation with Salman Rushdie 

The keynote panel of the event, a conversation with author and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie about the importance of free speech in a democratic society and the forces of censorship that imperil its existence, was moderated by Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America.


Panel 1: The Origins of the First Amendment and Its Central Role in Democracy

Probing the origins of the First Amendment and its critical role as a check on the government

  • Akhil Reed AmarSterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University
  • Jacob Mchangamafounder and CEO of The Future of Free Speech Project; Research Professor at Vanderbilt University
  • Stephen SolomonMarjorie Deane Professor of Journalism at New York University; founder of NYU’s First Amendment Watch
  • Moderator: Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center

  • Panel 2: The First Amendment in the Courts

    Exploring the current legal controversies filling the daily headlines—from defamation to book banning to threatening language

    • Floyd Abrams, senior counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel
    • Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
    • Lyrissa LidskyRaymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law at Florida Law
    • Moderator: Bruce Brownexecutive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

    • Panel 3: The First Amendment on Campus and Online

      Examining the increasing conflicts involving free speech on campuses and online in an age of social media, artificial intelligence, and other new technologies

      • Will Creeley, legal director at FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
      • Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
      • Nadine StrossenJohn Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita, at New York Law School
      • Moderator: Jeffrey Rosenpresident and CEO of the National Constitution Center

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