The four authors bring our diverse professional backgrounds together to embody the interdisciplinary approach that informs this book, and to pass along to our students the possibility of enlightened engagement.
Rebecca L. Brown
Rebecca L. Brown, the Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California, is a constitutional law theorist who has written on issues related to free expression. She also teaches courses on the First Amendment, one of which is devoted to campus speech.
Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein is the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is co-author of the Constitutional Law for a Changing America textbook series, published by Sage/CQ Press, now moving into its 13th edition.
Adam Liptak
Adam Liptak, as The New York Times’ Supreme Court correspondent, regularly reports on cases related to free speech. He also has taught courses on the First Amendment; and, when he was a practicing lawyer, he concentrated on free speech issues as legal counsel to The New York Times Company.
Andrew D. Martin
Andrew D. Martin, the Chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis, has written and taught on issues related to free expression. He also confronts campus speech controversies regularly in his job at WashU.