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Willed ignorance: Reflections on academic free speech, prompted by the David Miller case
24 November 2021, 6:00 pm–7:15 pm
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UCL Laws Events
Willed ignorance: Reflections on academic free speech, prompted by the David Miller case
with Professor Anthony Julius (UCL)
Welcome from Professor Paul Mitchell (UCL)
Chaired by
The Rt Revd & Rt Hon The Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth FBA
About the talk
The David Miller case raises the question, does liberal free speech doctrine require academics to defend the antisemitic conspiracy-talk of a politics professor? The lecture will open with a discussion of Louise Gluck's poem "A Myth of Innocence," and will then proceed towards an answer to this question, pausing to address details of the Miller case itself when the general argument requires it to do so.
About the speaker
Anthony Julius is a Professor in the Faculty of Laws, UCL, and Deputy Chair of law firm Mishcon de Reya.
About the chair
Rowan Williams is the Master of Magdalen College, University of Cambridge. He served as the Archbishop of Wales from 2000 to 2002 and as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He was made a life peer in 2013 and is now Lord Williams of Oystermouth.
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