The Drake Constitutional Law Center is hosting a lecture featuring Justin Driver, Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at The University of Chicago Law School, on Oct. 26, at 3 p.m. in Cartwright Hall, Room 213. The lecture, “Free Speech in Public Schools: From Black Armbands to BONG HiTS FOR JESUS,” is free and open to the public.

During the lecture, Driver will discuss the controversial topic of free speech in public schools, citing two milestone Supreme Court cases: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (the “black armband case”) and Morse v. Frederick, in which student Joseph Frederick was suspended after displaying a banner reading “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS.”

Prior to joining the University of Chicago Law School, Driver was a professor of law at the University of Texas and a visiting professor at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Virginia. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court. Driver has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, and more.

For more information, see the news release.

—Kayla Choate, Law School