NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bruce Rogow will relate his 40 years‘ experience
practicing First Amendment law in the South to the role of the First
Amendment in contemporary life during an upcoming Vanderbilt University
address.
Rogow‘s lecture, “A First Amendment Life,” begins at 7 p.m. on Tuesday,
Jan. 25, in Vanderbilt‘s Sarratt Cinema. The event is free and open to
the public.
The lecture will include a brief history of the First Amendment‘s
speech, press, assembly and religion clauses and discuss ways in which
political parties, religious groups, civil rights organizations —
including gay and women‘s rights groups — and animal rights advocates
have utilized the First Amendment to further their political and social
objectives.
Rogow began his career representing civil rights workers in the deep
South during the early 1960s. Since then, he has argued more than 300
federal and state cases, including 11 before the U.S. Supreme Court.
His diverse roster of clients has included the Palm Beach County, Fla.,
supervisor of elections during the 2000 presidential election debate,
the controversial rap group 2 Live Crew, former Ku Klux Klan Grand
Wizard David Duke, O.J. Simpson lawyer F. Lee Bailey, the chief of the
Seminole Tribe of Florida, members of the American Nazi Party, and a
number of judges, lawyers, doctors and elected officials.
For 30 years, Rogow has taught law at Nova Southeastern University in
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for
the past 17 years for First Amendment and criminal law and is a fellow
of both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Academy
of Appellate Lawyers.
Rogow‘s lecture is being sponsored by the student-run Vanderbilt
Speakers Committee.
Media contact: Kara Furlong, (615) 322-NEWS
kara.c.furlong@vanderbilt.edu