The Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech invites you to a conference entitled “Revisiting the Woodward Report: Free Expression on College Campuses.” This academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the Woodward Report, one of the significant documents in the history free speech at American universities. The report was produced at Yale University by a committee chaired by the historian C. Vann Woodward and is formally entitled, “Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale.” 

Open to the Yale Community. Register here to attend. 

12:00pm — Opening Remarks
Heather K. Gerken — Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Keith E. Whittington — David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School

12:30pm – Panel: Reflections on the Woodward Report at Yale
James C. Cobb – Professor Emeritus, University of Georgia and Scholar of C. Vann Woodward
Robert C. Post – Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Kenneth Barnes – practicing attorney and author of the dissenting opinion of the Woodward Report
Kate Stith — Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, Yale Law School

2:15pm – Break

2:45pm – Panel: Woodward Report and Campus Free Expression
Randall L. Kennedy – Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University
Sigal Ben-Porath – MRMJJ Presidential Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Ronald A. Crutcher – President Emeritus, University of Richmond
Amna Khalid – Associate Professor of History, Carleton College

4:30pm – Closing Remarks
James C. Ho, Judge, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Justic