Friday, October 29, 2004
First Amendment lawyer
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Robert Corn-Revere, a law partner in the Washington D.C. firm, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, will be the speaker for the 2004 Berger Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, November 8, at the University of Southern Indiana in Carter Hall of the University Center. His lecture will be “Dispatches from the Culture Wars: from Lenny Bruce to Janet Jackson.” Corn-Revere has acquired a reputation for strict adherence to the cause of free speech. He was lead counsel in Mainstream Marketing Services, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, challenging the constitutionality of the national “do-not-call” telemarketing regulation. He has served as counsel in litigation involving the Communications Decency Act, the Child Online Protection Act, Internet content filtering in public libraries, public broadcasting regulations, and export controls on encryption software. He successfully petitioned Governor George E. Pataki to grant the first posthumous pardon in New York history to the late comedian Lenny Bruce. He has served as chief counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, co-writer of a textbook on modern mass communications law, has written on First Amendment, Internet and communications-related issues, and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Pike & Fischer’s Internet Law & Regulation and adjunct scholar for Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. He was listed on a 30th anniversary Roll of Honor by the American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom and Freedom to Read Foundation. A native of Mattoon, Illinois, Corn-Revere changed his name, adding the Revere in emulation of Paul Revere, one of the country’s best-known sentries in the cause of freedom. The Berger Lecture is an annual event at USI named in honor of former Evansville civil rights attorney Sydney L. Berger. The lecture presents a topic on civil rights or civil liberties and is sponsored by the English Department this year. The lecture is free and open to the public. |
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