In this week’s edition of “Scheer Intelligence,” I tackle a timely issue with constitutional law expert Erwin Chemerinsky: freedom of speech on university campuses. Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley law school and an acclaimed scholar on First Amendment issues, explains that the current generation of college students is misunderstanding free speech, especially when it comes to incendiary right-wing speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos. “They have remarkable trust in campus authorities to punish the speech that they don’t like but allow the speech that they do like.”Chemerinsky expands on many of these points in his latest book, co-written with Howard Gillman, Free Speech on Campus. After discussing his experience working with students in the classroom, Chemerinsky delves into the basic philosophy behind the First Amendment. But the alternative, to me, is much more frightening.”Scheer and Chemerinsky go on to discuss the history of free speech on college campuses, especially during the Vietnam War, and free speech as it applies to corporations like Google and Facebook.

Source: Huffington Post October 28, 2017 04:07 UTC