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CONTRIBUTORS
Erin Daly
is Professor of Law at the Widener University Delaware Law School and co-founder of the Dignity Rights Project. She is the long-time friend and colleague of Larry Hamermesh, whom she honors in this issue. She was Interim
Dean of the Law School from 2013-2015. A prolific scholar, she has written extensively on comparative constitutional law and transitional justice. Her books include Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (Universi- ty of Pennsylvania Press 2013). She serves as Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment, as the U.S. National Correspondent for the Centre International de Droit Comparé de l’Environnement at Limoges, and as the Vice President for Institutional Development at the Université de la Fondation Aristide in Haiti.
Alan E. Garfield
is a Distinguished Professor at the Widener University Delaware Law School, where he has received many awards for his teaching and his scholarship. He is especially well-known for his prolific writings and commentary ex-
plaining constitutional issues to the general public. He has won the Delaware Press Association first place award for an opin- ion column seven times. He is the founder and coordinator of “The First State Celebrates Constitution Day,” a project run in collaboration with The News Journal. He was President of the Delaware ACLU Board from 2015-2017. He co-founded and directs the Delaware Law School Patent Pro Bono Program, which pairs low-income inventors with volunteer attorneys who help the inventors file patent applications. He is completing a new book explaining the First Amendment to non-lawyers.
Rodney A. Smolla
is Dean of the Widener University Delaware Law School. He was previously President of Furman University, and Dean of the Washing- ton and Lee University and University of Rich- mond Law Schools. He remains an active liti-
gator and has presented oral arguments in state and federal courts throughout the country, including the United States Supreme Court. He became a member of the Delaware Bar in 2016. He has written over 15 books and hundreds of articles. His newest book, Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer: Charlottesville and the Politics of Hate, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press.
Nadine Strossen
is the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School. From 1991 through 2008, she served as President of the American Civil Liberties Union, the first woman to head the nation’s largest and old-
est civil liberties organization. As a scholar, teacher, advocate, ACLU leader, and ubiquitous media commentator and public speaker, she is one of the most famous and respected civil lib- erties champions of modern times. In 2017, she received the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award; The National Law Journal has named her one of “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.” A prolific writer, her most recent book, HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (Oxford University Press 2018) deals extensively with the themes of this issue.
Alexander Tsesis
holds the Raymond & Mary Simon Chair in Constitutional Law at the Loyola Uni- versity School of Law in Chicago. He is the General Editor of the Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. He is a dis-
tinguished scholar, as well as the author of many books and articles on constitutional law, civil rights and American history. He is one of the world’s preeminent scholarly advocates for the adoption of strong legal measures to curtail hate speech. He has written many articles critical of the modern Supreme Court’s First Amendment doctrines providing robust protection for hate speech. His many books include Destructive Messages: How Hate Speech Paves the Way for Harmful Social Movements (New York University Press 2002), a title especially germane to the theme of this issue.
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