Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop
jointly sponsored by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (ASU)
and the Hoover Institution (Stanford University)

Are
you a law student, judicial law clerk, lawyer, or beginning academic
hoping to publish a journal article on free speech law? Would you like
the opportunity to get advice about your draft from leading free speech
scholars?

If so, send us your draft by Sunday, August 16, 2026.
(This should still be a draft article, not an article that’s already
published or expected to be published within six months.) We plan to
select the submissions that we think are particularly promising, and invite their authors to a workshop where
they can present their papers and get helpful feedback on them. The
workshop will be Saturday, October 24, 2026 (with dinner the night
before) at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in Phoenix, and we
will inform the selected authors by Tuesday, September 8, 2026.

We have funds to pay for transportation and lodging for the selected authors’ trips. Eligibility is limited to people who have so far published three or fewer law-related journal articles. 

We also plan to officially recognize
zero to three of the top articles among those we review. If the authors
wish, they can also have their articles reviewed for publication in the
Journal of Free Speech Law (http://JournalOfFreeSpeechLaw.org), presumably after they revise the articles in light of the workshop feedback.

If you’re interested, please submit your draft at http://tinyurl.com/aspiring-free-speech (Google logon required). Please single-space, and format the article nicely, so we can more easily read it.

Please do not include your name or law school affiliation
in the document or document filename, and please do not include an
author’s note thanking your advisors and others. Please make your
filename be the title of your article (or some recognizable subset of
the article title). We want to review the article drafts without knowing
the authors’ identities.

If you have questions, please check http://tinyurl.com/aspiring-free-speech-faq; if your question isn’t answered there, please e-mail volokh@stanford.edu.

Many thanks to the Stanton Foundation for its generous support.

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James
Weinstein, Dan Cracchiolo Chair in Constitutional Law and Professor of
Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Eugene
Volokh, Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution (Stanford
University), and Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law
Emeritus, UCLA School of Law

from Blogger http://tushnet.blogspot.com/2026/02/cfp-emerging-first-amendment-scholars.html