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Hate Speech and the First Amendment: Why Neither is a Stable Entity

Please join the TU College of Law and the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities for an evening with esteemed literary theorist and scholar Dr. Stanley Fish. He will be giving a talk on the complications of hate speech and the first amendment.

As Dr. Fish argues, hate speech is not a stable entity because it cannot be defined. The first amendment is not a stable entity because it is a rhetoric — a collection of slogans and totemic phrases — rather than a principle with a center.

The talk will be hosted at the Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education’s main gallery on April 8th at 5pm with a reception to follow. As always, admission is free.

Stanley Fish serves as the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. He is one of America’s most well-known literary theorists and legal scholars.