Should Corporations Be Able to Speak Freely? Corporate Speech in the Wake of Citizens United

Golden Gate Objectivists are invited to the following Campus Club event in Stanford, courtesy of the Ayn Rand Institute and the Campus Club:


Should Corporations Be Able to Speak Freely? Corporate Speech in the Wake of Citizens United

A debate at Stanford University

Who: Dr. Eric Daniels, research assistant professor at Clemson University’s Institute for the Study of Capitalism, and David Yosifon, law professor at Santa Clara University

What: A debate that focuses on the issue of whether corporations should have a limit on their right to free speech

Where: Building 420, Room 041, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305

When: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.

Admission: FREE. Open to students and the public. No RSVP required.

Bio: Dr. Eric Daniels is a research assistant professor at Clemson University’s Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He has lectured internationally on American history, particularly on American intellectual history, business history and political history. He taught for five years in Duke University’s Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace, where he was nominated for a university-wide teaching award. Dr. Daniels was a contributor to the recently published Oxford Companion to United States History, and wrote a chapter in The Abolition of Antitrust. He has appeared on C-SPAN and Voice of America Radio.

David Yosifon teaches courses in the areas of business law, legal ethics and legal theory at Santa Clara University. His scholarship is focused on the application of social psychology, and allied social sciences, to law and legal theory. His recent work advances this approach to legal theory through a critique of the role that conventional conceptions of human agency play in contemporary corporate governance law.

Professor Yosifon was born and raised in New Jersey. He received his undergraduate degree in history and philosophy from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in 1995 (summa cum laude). After Rutgers he attended graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where in 1997 he received a master’s degree in American Social History. He received his J.D. from Harvard University in 2002 (magna cum laude). Before joining the faculty at Santa Clara University, Yosifon served as a visiting assistant professor at Rutgers Law School-Camden, and as a visiting associate professor at New York Law School. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and as a litigation associate at the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray, LLP.

More information: Please e-mail the host, the Objectivists of Stanford, atdakinsloss@gmail.com

Please note: The above event is organized, hosted and sponsored by an individual campus club. Although ARI provides financial support, educational materials and speakers for eligible student clubs, campus clubs are organizations independent of ARI. ARI does not necessarily endorse the content of the lectures and sessions offered.