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View More NewsI’m pleased to report that it has been 5 years since the Journal of Free Speech Law published its first article, and since then we’ve published a total of 150. We’ve published some of the top people in the field from some of the top law schools, such as Geoffrey Stone (Chicago), Genevieve Lakier (Chicago), Jane Ginsburg (Columbia), Philip Hamburger (Columbia), Lee Bollinger (Columbia), Stuart Benjamin (Duke), Joseph Blocher (Duke), Mark Tushnet (Harvard), Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), Jeremy Waldron (NYU), Cynthia Estlund (NYU), Christopher Yoo (Penn), Mark Lemley (Stanford), Danielle Citron (Virginia), Jack Balkin (Yale), and Robert Post (Yale), But we’ve also…
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Happy new school year, and best of luck in gym class. I went to the Freedom 250 IndyCar race on the National Mall this weekend, so let’s talk about it. Then we’ll move onto a major story: players going from NFL rosters to the NCAA transfer portal. We’ll close with some brief thoughts on what sports can tell us about immigration. Also, after 76 straight weekly issues since this newsletter’s birth, I am finally taking a break. But thanks to Reason’s never-ending quest to bring you great content, my colleague Eric…
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