BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251019T2322Z-1760916150.4357-EO-728805-1@10.73.0.4 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T103404Z CREATED:20251019T185845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251019T185845Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T131500 SUMMARY: Politics\, Torts\, and the First Amendment: The Limits of Protest and Public Pressure Torts\, with Prof. Eugene Volokh and Dean John Goldberg DESCRIPTION: In the age of online cancellation and the “heckler’s veto\,” w hat role can tort law play? What even are “public pressure torts” and “prot est torts?” How can they be abused? Should the First Amendment limit liabil ity? Should the states make such suits harder? Join us to hear from Prof. E ugene Volokh of the Hoover Institution […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In the ag e of online cancellation and the “heckler’s veto\,” what role can tort law play? What even are “public pressure torts” and “protest torts?” How can th ey be abused? Should the First Amendment limit liability? Should the states make such suits harder? Join us to hear from Prof. Eugene Volokh of the Ho over Institution and The Volokh Conspiracy for answers to these questions and more\, with Dean John Goldberg commenting. Paninis will be s erved.

CATEGORIES:Speaker/Panel LOCATION:Pound Hall\; 101 Ballantine Classroom GEO:0;0 ORGANIZER;CN="Daniel Nivens":MAILTO:dnivens@jd27.law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/politics-torts-and-the-first-a mendment-the-limits-of-protest-and-public-pressure-torts-with-prof-eugene-v olokh-and-dean-john-goldberg/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20250309T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR