Our Speakers Bureau addresses undergraduates on the role free speech has played, and may continue to play, in advancing civil rights. Topics include free speech history, practice, and contemporary focal points like censorship, technology, and race relations. Speakers have visited dozens of campuses from Ivys and public research universities to community colleges and the Christian liberal arts.
We will cover the cost of speakers’ honoraria and travel. If you or student groups you work with want to explore bringing a speaker to campus, please email us at VFLI@gmu.edu with the subject line: “Speaker Inquiry: Campus Group Name, University.” Scroll down for bureau listings and topics, and click speaker names to access full bios.
Enrique Armijo
Professor of Law; Affiliate Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
Topics: First Amendment, Media Law, Online Disinformation
David E. Bernstein
Executive Director, Liberty & Law Center; University Professor of Law
Topics: Free Speech, Minority Rights
David L. Bernstein
Founder and CEO, Jewish Institute for Liberal Values
Topics: Free Expression, Classical Liberalism, Jewish Thought
JoAnn Koob
Director, Liberty and Law Center; Assistant Professor of Law; Lola C. Reinsch Public Interest Fellow
Topics: Free Speech, Press, Civil Rights
William Mattox
Director of the J. Stanley Marshall Center for Education Freedom at the James Madison Institute
Topics: Counter Speech, Free Speech in History
Jacob Mchangama
Founder & Executive Director, The Future of Free Speech
Topics: History of Free Expression, Free Speech Culture, Online/Digital Speech
Matthew Metzgar
Clinical Professor of Economics
Topics: Campus Culture, Teaching Innovations
Christopher Newman
Associate Professor of Law
Topics: Free Speech, Intellectual Property
Cece O’Leary
Southeastern Legal Foundation Attorney and Director of SLF’s 1A Project
Topics: Founding Principles, Government Interference
Christine Rosen
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Topics: Social Media, Self-Censorship, Free Expression
Erec Smith
Associate Professor of Rhetoric, York College of Pennsylvania
Topics: Free Speech, Viewpoint Diversity
Tara Smith
Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
Topics: Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Nadine Strossen
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita, New York Law School
Topics: Discussion and Dissent, History and Practice of Free Speech
Eugene Volokh
Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA; Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford
Topics: First Amendment, Free Speech Legal Overlay
Devon Westhill
President and General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity
Topics: Free Speech, Free Society, Affirmative Action
John Wood, Jr.
National Ambassador for Braver Angels
Topics: Polarization, Racism, Multiculturalism, Free Speech