Free Speech on Campus Conference  Case Western Reserve University - April 16th, 2016 This conference aims to educate students on the complex speech codes that restrict their free speech rights on campus and empower students to talk to their peers about the importance of free speech and how to work with your campus to create change. Topics will include: the necessity of protecting speech in a free society, a session on changing the campus speech codes, an interactive creative activism session for students who want to make a difference on the ground, and a discussion of free speech and pop culture. Lunch will be served during the conference, and there will be a post-conference dinner and social (location TBD).

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Joseph Cohn Joseph Cohn, FIRE’s Legislative and Policy Director, is a 2004 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Fels Institute of Government Administration, where he earned his Juris Doctor and Masters in Government Administration. Prior to law school, Joe attended the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV), where he graduated cum laude and co-founded the university’s ACLU chapter. A former staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and law clerk in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Joe joins FIRE having demonstrated a career-long dedication to advancing the cause of civil liberties. Just prior to joining FIRE, Joe served as the interim legal director for ACLU affiliates in Nevada and Utah. Jeffrey Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is Director of Digital Development for the Foundation for Economic Education. He is also Chief Liberty Officer and founder of Liberty.me, research fellow at the Acton Institute, policy adviser of the Heartland Institute, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, member of the editorial board of the Molinari Review, an advisor to the blockchain application builder Factom, and author of five books. He has written 150 introductions to books and many thousands of articles appearing in the scholarly and popular press. His new book is Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World. Follow on Twitter and Like on Facebook. He created the first live classroom in the liberty-oriented ideological space and assembled the official bibliography of famed economic writer Henry Hazlitt, a project that included more than 10,000 entries. Early in his career, following his degree in economics and journalism, he served as research assistant to Ron Paul at his private foundation.

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