In honor of Constitution Day, please join the UMKC School of Law for a noon hour lecture on Schools, Cyberspeech, and the First Amendment presented by Professor Dan Weddle on September 17, 2012 in the law school’s student lounge.  Recent events in the news have highlighted the problems with regulation of off-campus student speech in social media and internet postings that affect what happens in the school.    This lecture will address the constitutional difficulties surrounding schools’ exercising authority over this type of speech.

Professor Weddle is a member of the faculty at UMKC School of Law and the co-editor of Our Promise: Achieving Educational Equality for America’s Children.  This lecture is a preview of the School Speech conference to be held at the Law School on September 20 and 21, which will feature litigants and attorneys from five landmark United States Supreme Court cases, spanning 40 years, dealing with school speech.

For more information about the symposium see www.law.umkc.edu/schools.

Constitution Day became a recognized federal holiday in 2004, when legislation authored by Senator Robert Byrd was signed into law.  The Act mandates that all educational institutions that receive public funding provide educational programming on the history of the American Constitution on or near September 17th each year.