Professor Timothy Zick Discusses Public Protests and the Law on the Academic Freedom Podcast
Professor Timothy Zick recently sat down with Keith Wittington of the Academic Freedom Podcast to discuss the law of public protests in general and the specific situation of protest activities on college campuses.
Zick, the Robert & Elizabeth Scott Research Professor and John Marshall Professor of Government and Citizenship at Mary Law School, is a leading expert on the First Amendment law surrounding protest activities. His books include Managed Dissent: The Law of Public Protests (Cambridge UP, 2023), The First Amendment in the Trump Era (Oxford UP, 2019), The Dynamic Free Speech Clause: Freedom of Speech and Its Relation to Other Constitutional Rights (Cambridge UP, 2018), The Cosmopolitan First Amendment: Protecting Transborder Expressive and Religious Liberties (Cambridge UP, 2014), and Speech Out of Doors: Preserving First Amendment Liberties in Public Places (Cambridge UP, 2009).
Zick has been a frequent commentator in local, national, and international media regarding First Amendment, Second Amendment, and other constitutional issues. He has been a guest on national television and radio broadcasts, including All In With Chris Hayes on MSNBC and the Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM.
His commentary has been published in The Atlantic, Slate, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Monthly, Jurist, and The Conversation. He has been quoted frequently in the national press, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, FiveThirtyEight, Politifact, CNN, NBC, Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, and the Christian Science Monitor.