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Events • September 28, 2017 

# The Future of the First Amendment: Panel 1 – Enduring Issues at a Time of Change 

The First Amendment has moved to the center of American political conflict. On college campuses, students and faculty demand protection from speech and speakers. Polls show students and young people in general evince less support for free speech than previous generations had shown. In legal and public debate, the free exercise of religion conflicts with the right to marriage, thereby placing the First Amendment at the center of vitriolic cultural clashes. Moreover, the challenges for the First Amendment seemed fated to grow. Modern surveillance methods can chill speech even absent malign intent from officials. The global nature of the Internet also means that regulations arising from nations less protective of speech than the United States might become the rule for all. If this were not enough, traditional First Amendment issues such as campaign finance remain controversial during and after hard-fought elections. Cato’s first conference on the First Amendment, a new biennial effort, offers provocative and thoughtful views on these issues.

**PANEL 1 – ENDURING ISSUES AT A TIME OF CHANGE** 

**Progressivism and the First Amendment** 
**Robert F. Bauer**, New York University Law School 

***Citizens United*: A Look Back and Forward** 
**Jeffrey Milyo**, University of Missouri 

**Commercial Speech as Free Speech** 
**Martin Redish**, Northwestern Law School

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##### Robert F. Bauer 

New York University School of Law

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##### [Jeffrey D. Milyo](/people/jeffrey-milyo)

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##### Martin H. Redish