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17 Media L. Notes 1 (1989-1990)

handle is hein.journals/mdilwnts17 and id is 1 raw text is: Media Law Notes Volume 17, Number 1+ Newsletter of the AEJMC Law Division + Fall 1989 Bill of Rights session planned By W. Wat Hopkins vPI & SU The AEJMC executive committee has given tentative approval to a plan for an academic conference in March 1991 focusing on the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights. The committee, at its meeting on the last day of the 1989 annual conven- tion in Washington, D.C., approved, with two stipulations, a proposal pre- sented by AEJMC's ad hoc commit- tee on the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights. The executive committee wanted as- surances that, first, women and minorities would be adequately represented at the conference and, second, AEJMC members who do not attend the academic conference but do attend the annual AEJMC convention in Boston in 1991 would be able to benefit in some way from the Bill of Rights conference. The ad hoc committee is to present a plan addressing these two concerns at the AEJMC winter meeting in Florida. The executive committee will then determine whether to approve the conference. Tentative plans are for the academic conference to be co-sponsored by the Bill of Rights Institute of the Marshall-Wythe College of Law at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Rodney Smolla, director of the insti- tute, has agreed to the joint session, said Bill F. Chamberlin (Florida), chair of the AEJMC Bill of Rights committee. If all goes as planned, Chamberlin said, the conference will be held at the College of Law facili- ties in Williamsburg. Chamberlin said he hopes constitu- tional law scholar Vincent Blasi, who will be in residence at the William & Mary law school in 1991, will be the keynote speaker at the academic conference. In addition, there will be other speakers and research paper ses- sions focusing on the speakers' themes. The committee hopes to circulate calls for papers this fall, Chamberlin said. The committee wants to collect papers and lectures presented during the conference into a book, Chamber- lin said. W. Wat Hopkins is the Law Division's representative to the committee on the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Bill ofRights. Brennan honored at D.C. convention ByKaren Markin North Caroiina U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., praised as a leader in free expression jurisprudence, was presented the 1989 AEJMC Law Division Distinguished Service Award Aug. 10 at the association's annual convention in Washington, D.C. Brennan has amassed a record favoring free expression that is un- matched by any justice, W. Wat Hopkins (VPI&SU) said at the award presentation. His contributions to freedom of the press and freedom of speech in the United States for 32 years have been consistent and unyielding. Hopkins, who was Law Division vice head and program chair in 1988-89 and now is division head, presented a paper titled Freedom and Equity in the Tenure of Justice Brennan at the ceremony. The paper traced Brennan's Supreme Court career and emphasized his work on landmark free expression cases, particularly in the areas of obscenity and libel. It noted Brennan's contribu- tion to the language of free expression law through his often-quoted decision in New York Times v, Sullivan. Dru Riley Evarts (Ohio), 1988-89 Law Division head, presented the award. The Supreme Court's public information officer, Toni House, accepted the award on Brennan's behalf. The award, a pen and pencil set, was engraved with Brennan's name, the name of the AEJMC Law Division, and the inscription Father of the Modern First Amendment. According to Evarts, Brennan's secretary said room would be made on the justice's desktop for the pen and pencil set. And we're counting on him signing his First Amendment opinions with it, she added.

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