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Loyola Prof. gives Law & Society Faculty Forum Lecture at SULC?
Prof. Andrea Armstrong of the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law delivered a presentation on the constitutional free speech rights of those who are incarcerated, as part of SULC’s Law & Society Faculty Forum lecture series, April 6, 2016.
In her presentation, Prof. Armstrong discussed the current legal status of prisoners’ rights to protest conditions of confinement. She noted that historically the U.S. Supreme Court has held that a prison is not considered a “public forum” and therefore First Amendment speech rights are greatly restricted. In this project, she researches the historical underpinnings of this rule. She challenges the restrictive nature of the First Amendment speech rights in light of connections between the emergence of the doctrine and the incarceration of civil rights activists.
Prof. Armstrong teaches constitutional law, criminal law, race and the law, and constitutional criminal procedure courses at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. She is a national expert on prisoners’ rights, and her articles have appeared in the Seattle University Law Review, the Stanford Law and Policy Review, and the University of California Irvine Law Review.
Armstrong serves on the board of the Capital Appeals Project and is a founding board member of the Promise of Justice Initiative, a non-profit committed to ending the death penalty and advancing the right of prisoners. The Yale Law School graduate has a master’s in public administration in international affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
This talk concludes the inaugural Law & Society Faculty Forum speaker series at SULC. The series will resume in fall 2016.
For more information, contact Prof. Chris Odinet at codinet@sulc.edu.
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