Censorship and the New Puritans on Campus
Speaker:
David French
10 Nov 2015
8:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
David French is a staff writer at National Review, an attorney concentrating his practice in constitutional law and the law of armed conflict, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He will discuss the censorship of conservative voices on college campuses. French is the author or co-author of several books, including, most recently, Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has served as a senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and the Alliance Defending Freedom. He is also the past president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), whose Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus he authored.
French is a major in the United States Army Reserve (IRR). In 2007, he deployed to Iraq, serving in Diyala Province as Squadron Judge Advocate for the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, where he was awarded the Bronze Star.
His other books include [i]Home and Away: A Story of Family in a Time of War[/i] and [i]A Season for Justice: Defending the Rights of the Christian Church, Home, and School[/i]. He also coauthored the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's [i]Guide to Free Speech on Campus[/i]. French's legal work defending religious liberty on college campuses helped inspire the hit movie [i]God's Not Dead[/i]. He is a former lecturer at Cornell Law School.