Columbia Law Review: Karl Llewellyn Lecture
The Columbia Law Review is thrilled to announce our Third Annual Karl Llewellyn Lecture.
Floyd Abrams, a distinguished First Amendment litigator and Senior Counsel at Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, will present his Lecture, “Reviving the Press Clause.” The Lecture will detail the unique importance of the freedom of the press in the Founding Era, highlight present-day threats to press freedoms, and advocate for a more sympathetic reading of the Press Clause that safeguards the critical role of a free press in an informed democracy. The Lecture will be held on Thursday, February 12th at 6 pm in JGH 101.
The Karl Llewellyn Lecture honors the celebrated legal scholar Karl Nickerson Llewellyn. Llewellyn, a former professor at both Columbia University and the University of Chicago, is considered to be one of the founders and thought leaders of American legal realism. Llewellyn’s considerable contributions to American jurisprudential scholarship continue to influence legal doctrine, education, and practice to this day.