Those working online, we remind you as well as those joining us on cspan that you are welcome to send questions or comments at any time, simply emailing speaker at heritage. Org and of course we will post the program on the homepage following todays presentation for everyones future reference. Leading our discussion is mr. Stimson, manager of our law program and senior legal fellow in our center for National Defense. He is a National Recognized expert and Homeland Security crime control, drug control and immigration. He he writes and lectures on policy issues such as the law of Armed Conflict in interrogations, the geneva conventions, the patriot act and others. Before joining us here ten years ago, he served he served as Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for Detainee Affairs for Donald Rumsfeld and ronald gates. He has been a prosecutor about state local and federal levels. He is a navy officer and served as a milk terry prosecutor and recently served as deputy judge of the green
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our douglas and sara allison auditorium. We welcome those who join our heritage. Org web site on all of these occasions, for those here in house we would ask that courtesy check to see that our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off and, of course, for those watching online we remind you as well as those joining us on cspan that youre welcome to send questions or comments at any time. Simply emailing speaker heritage. Org and we will post that on the home page for everyones future reference. Leading our discussion is culley stimson. Mr. Stimson is manager of our National Security law program and a senior legal fellow in our center for National Defense. Hes a nationally recognized expert in National Security, homeland security, crime control, drug policy and immigration. He also writes and lectures widely on policy issues such as the law of armed conflict, terrorist detainee policy and interrogations, the geneva conventions
This month, millions of American Students will return to thousands of College Campuses across the country. We at the Heritage Foundation and the organizations that joined us today want to help students learn what their rights are and how to protect them. Think the right of free speech is absolutely essential and we want to help you to exercise that right. For many, going back to school means selfcensorship, discrimination, and ridicule on the basis of their religion or their political beliefs. We are here today to help you with a stellar class of panelists will be helping us to work through this issue. First, we have sarah, the senior legal fellow for the center for legal and traditional studies, as part of an institutional government and heritage. Sarah joins heritage after serving on the council to the assistant secretary for civil rights at the u. S. Department of education, where she focused on policy reform, technical guidance, and the office for civil rights annual report to cong
Foundations Young Leaders program director, colleen harmon. [applause] good evening. Afternoon. And welcome to the heritage event, how to have free speech and fight back. To those of you online, welcome. This month, millions of American Students will return to thousands of College Campuses across the country. We at the Heritage Foundation and the organizations that join us today want to help students learn what their rights are and how to protect them. We think this right of free speech to be absolutely essential to human freedom and flourishing and we want to help you exercise that right. For many, going back to school means selfcensorship, discrimination, and ridicule on the basis of their religion or their political beliefs. We are here today to help you with a stellar class of panelists will be helping us to work through this issue. First, we have sarah, the senior legal fellow for the center for legal and traditional studies, as part of an institutional government and heritage. Sa
We think this right of free speech to be absolutely essential to human freedom and flourishing and we want to help you exercise that right. For many, going back to school means selfcensorship, discrimination, and ridicule on the basis of their religion or their political beliefs. We are here today to help you with a stellar class of panelists will be helping us to work through this issue. First, we have sarah, the senior legal fellow for the center for legal and traditional studies, as part of an institutional government and heritage. Sarah joins heritage after serving on the council to the assistant secretary for civil rights at the u. S. Department of education, where she focused on policy reform, technical guidance, and the office for civil rights annual report to congress. While at ocr, she was the acting assistant secretary to a counsel and in coordination with the secretary for enforcement overview the hiring. She spent six years at the Family Research council as senior fellow fo