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So to Speak podcast: Professor Randall Kennedy on ‘The Forgotten Origins of the Constitution on Campus’
Has the history of how our constitutional rights came to be protected on campus been forgotten?
Professor believes it has. It’s a history even he wasn’t familiar with until recently. On this episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, Professor Kennedy explains how civil rights activists in the 1950s and 60s secured early victories for free speech, due process, and public assembly on high school and college campuses.
Professor Kennedy teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations at Harvard Law School, and he is the author of “.” Prior to arriving at Harvard, he was a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall at the United States Supreme Court.
A transcript of the conversation can be read at this link.
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