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32 J.L. & Pol'y 1 (2024)

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CIVIL LIBERTIES: THE NEXT 100 YEARS
In honor of Professor Susan Herman's distinguished academic
career and tenure as the ACLU's president, a panel was held on
Friday, October 13, 2023 at Brooklyn Law School and on Zoom to
discuss the current state of civil liberties in the United States. The
participants also discussed Professor Herman's new book,
Advanced Introduction to US Civil Liberties. The transcription
below captures the discussion among Susan Herman,' Erwin
Chemerinsky,2 Ellis Cose,3 Anthony Romero,' and Nadine Strossen.5
All panelists have approved of the overall substantive accuracy
of this transcription. Any remaining errors in this transcript should
be attributed to the Journal of Law & Policy.
Dean Meyer
I'm so pleased that you're able to be here, so many of you in
person and the others of you are able to join us by Zoom, and I
welcome you as well. I know it was an unusually challenging travel
day to be here and we are so, so grateful to all of you for being able
to join us one way or the other for this special program. And I also
want to acknowledge with gratitude the partnership of the ACLU in
co-sponsoring this event, and to welcome the many officers and
members of the National Board of the ACLU who were able to be
here for this program today. It's a great honor to partner with you
and to have you here. The occasion for our gathering is the
celebration of a new book by our long-standing colleague, Professor
Susan Herman. And by our, I, of course, mean both Brooklyn Law
1 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School.
2 Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkley Law
School.
3 Acclaimed author and journalist.
4 Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
s John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita, New York Law School.

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