Philosophy Professor Dr. Tara Smith is sponsoring an essay contest this spring on the topic of Free Speech. The prize money is really good – $1500 for first prize, $1000 for second prize, and $700 for third prize. In past years, there hasn’t been a huge number of entries, so if you submit something good, there is a great chance for you to win some money! The deadline is February 17.
More information on the contest including the specific essay prompts is available here:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/bbtobjectivism/essay-contests/free-speech.php
In addition, Dr. Smith also sponsors a dialogue series on Free Speech. The topic of the lectures corresponds to one of the essay prompts, so you can attend the event to get ideas for your essay as well. The info about the panel discussion is below.
Free Speech in Relation to Privacy.
A panel discussion
Thursday Feb 6th
7:00 pm
Where: CLA 0.128
Speakers:
Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He also teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Mr Rotenberg has served on both national and international advisory panels, including panels of the OECD and UNESCO, on such topics as Cryptography Policy, Cyberspace Law, and countering spam. He has testified before Congress on a number of issues and currently chairs the American Bar Association’s Committee on Privacy and Information Protection.
A graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School, Mr Rotenberg served as Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and has edited or co edited three books: Privacy and Human Rights; The Privacy Law Sourcebook; Information Privacy Law.
A tournament chess player, Mr. Rotenberg won the 2007 Washington, DC Chess Championship.
Fred Cate is a Distinguished Professor Law at Indiana University, where he also directs the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and the Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information. He specializes in privacy, security, and other information law issues, appearing regularly before Congress, government agencies, and professional and industry groups. Professor Cate serves as an advisor or committee member for a number of groups, including Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Committee Cybersecurity Subcommittee, and the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (aka DARPA) Privacy Oversight Board.
Professor Cate is the author of numerous books and articles, appears regularly in the press, and is a founding editor of the journal, International Data Privacy Law. He received his J.D. and his A.B. from Stanford University.
Jim Harper is Director of Information Policy Studies at the CATO Institute, where he works to adapt law and policy to unique problems of the information age in areas such as privacy, telecommunications, intellectual property, and security.
Mr. Harper co-edited Terrorizing Ourselves: How U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It (2010), and is the author of Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood. He is the editor of Privacilla.org, a Web-based think tank devoted exclusively to privacy issues, and was a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.
He publishes both in scholarly and popular forums and his work is widely discussed in various media outlets. Mr. Harper holds a J.D. from the Hastings College of Law.
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information on the series as a whole, and related essay contest for undergraduates, is available.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/bbtobjectivism/free-speech-dialogues/about-the-series.php
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/bbtobjectivism/essay-contests/free-speech.php