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Emory Law Journal EMORY LAW JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD Presents Editor in Chief Benjamin A. Klebanoff Executive Articles Editor Jameson B. Bilsborrow Executive Managing Editors Elliott A. Foote Matthew E. Hayes Claire M. Jordan Ryan S. Rummage Executive Notes & Comments Editor Burton F. Peebles Executive Symposium Editor Gerard F. Bifulco Executive Marketing Editor Clayton E. Collett Executive Online Editor Eric M. Preston Articles Editors Ashley M. Allman Nicholas B. Corser George N. Holtan Wes Pickard Jonathan A. Porter Shawn N. Skolky Jonathan B. Spital Managing Editors Christian J. Bromley Yijun Han Ji Yoon Sharon Kim L. Vanessa Lopez Melissa A. O’Neill Kimberly Rubin Joshua E. Schwartz Neeraj K. Shah Joyce J. Shin Kristin N. Ward Notes & Comments Editors Elizabeth J. Accurso Lindsey L. Costakos Melissa L. Fox Kathleen R. Harrison Patrick H. Hill Christina M. Jones Alexander J. Owings Sabrina Wilson Symposium Editor Roxanne A. Walton Online Editors Andrew S. Hirsch Seongun Matthias Hong Robyn M. Kramer CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD Cindy Allen Thomas Bailey Roderick Blevins Andrea Clark Lacey A. Elmore Ariel Emmanuel William Eye Dane Ferre Jessica Floyd Mary Grace Gallagher Rebecca Hall Catherine Hawley Kasia Hebda Robert High Matthew Johnson Katya Keremidchieva Dylan Kidd George Knight Logan Kotler Zoya Kovalenko Jennifer Lamb Joy Llaguno Kelly McGinnis Allison Murphy Alexander Northover Alyssa Pardo Caitlin Pardue FACULTY ADVISORS Dorothy A. Brown Rafael I. Pardo Ryan Pulley Evyn Rabinowitz Katherine Rookard Elizabeth Rosenwasser David M. Rothenberg Nicole Sandler Jolie Schamber Michael P. Senger Katherine Sheriff Blake Simon Garrett Von Schaumburg Caroline Wood Allison Wu Anthony Yu The 2015 Randolph W. Thrower Symposium THE NEW AGE OF COMMUNICATION: Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century Thursday, February 5, 2015 Emory University School of Law Atlanta, Georgia The 34th Annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium THE NEW AGE OF COMMUNICATION: Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century The Randolph W. Thrower Symposium is an endowed series sponsored by Mr. Thrower’s family and hosted by the Emory Law Journal and Emory University School of Law 8:00-8:50 a.m. Breakfast and Registration 9:00-9:15 a.m. Welcoming Remarks • Dean Robert Schapiro, Emory University School of Law • Benjamin Klebanoff, Editor in Chief, Emory Law Journal • Gerard Bifulco, Executive Symposium Editor, Emory Law Journal 9:15-10:15 a.m. Keynote Address: Professor Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law 10:15-10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Panel I: Freedom of Speech: Theory and Foundations 12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00-2:30 p.m. Panel II: The First Amendment Today 2:30-2:45 p.m.Break 2:45-4:15 p.m. Panel III: Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century 4:15-4:30 p.m. Concluding Remarks: Gerard Bifulco 4:30-6:00 p.m.Reception Emory University School of Law1 SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW THE NEW AGE OF COMMUNICATION: Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century will explore the changing doctrine of free speech in the United States. The Supreme Court has been actively shaping speech rights through decisions such as McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, Snyder v. Phelps, and United States v. Alvarez. These new opinions and approaches create an occasion for stimulating dialogue on the foundations, current doctrines, and future of free speech. The 2015 Thrower Symposium has been developed with Professor Alexander Tsesis of Loyola University Chicago School of Law. 8:00-8:50 a.m. Breakfast and Registration, Hunter Atrium 9:00-9:15 a.m. Welcoming Remarks • Dean Robert Schapiro, Emory University School of Law • Benjamin Klebanoff, Editor in Chief, Emory Law Journal • Gerard Bifulco, Executive Symposium Editor, Emory Law Journal 1:00-2:30 p.m. Panel II: The First Amendment Today • Jane Bambauer, University of Arizona College of Law • Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic (co-presenters), The University of Alabama School of Law • Tejinder Singh, Goldstein & Russell, P.C. • Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law Moderator: Gerald Weber, Principal, The Weber Law Offices 2:45-4:15 p.m. Panel III: Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century • Derek Bambauer, University of Arizona College of Law • Caroline Mala Corbin, University of Miami School of Law • David S. Han, Pepperdine University School of Law • Jay Sekulow, American Center for Law and Justice Moderator: Thomas C. Arthur, Emory University School of Law 4:15-4:30 p.m. Concluding Remarks • Gerard Bifulco, Executive Symposium Editor, Emory Law Journal 4:30-6:00 p.m. Reception, Hunter Atrium 9:15-10:15 a.m. Keynote Address, Professor Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Panel I: Freedom of Speech: Theory and Foundations • Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California-Irvine School of Law • Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia Law School • Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University Chicago School of Law • Laura Weinrib, The University of Chicago Law School Moderator: Julie Seaman, Emory University School of Law 12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch, Hunter Atrium 2 The 34th Annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium Emory University School of Law3 SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law Eugene Volokh teaches First Amendment law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. Before coming to UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the US Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (5th ed. 2014), The Religion Clauses and Related Statutes (2005), and Academic Legal Writing (4th ed. 2011), as well as over 75 law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a Weblog that is now hosted at the Washington Post. Professor Volokh is also an Academic Affiliate for the Mayer Brown LLP law firm, and he has litigated extensively on First Amendment law in recent years. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Distinguished Professor of Law, Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, University of California-Irvine School of Law Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at UC Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in political science. Prior to assuming this position in 2008, he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004–2008, and before that was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School from 1983–2004, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. He is the author of eight books, including The Case Against the Supreme Court, published by Viking in 2014, and more than 200 law review articles. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court. Dean Chemerinsky is a graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School. SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS Frederick Schauer, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School Frederick Schauer is David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. From 1990 to 2008 he was Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard University. Previously he was Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, and has been Visiting Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School and the University of Chicago, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College and the University of Toronto, Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Distinguished Visitor at New York University, and Eastman Professor and Fellow of Balliol College at Oxford University. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Professor Schauer is the author of The Law of Obscenity (1976), Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (1982), Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (1991), Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (2003), Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (2009), and The Force of Law (2015), and the editor of Karl Llewellyn, The Theory of Rules (2011). A founding editor of the journal Legal Theory, he has been chair of the Section on Constitutional Law of the Association of American Law Schools and the Committee on Philosophy and Law of the American Philosophical Association. Professor Schauer has written widely on freedom of expression, constitutional law and theory, evidence, legal reasoning, and the philosophy of law. His books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Turkish, and his scholarship has been the subject of a book—Rules and Reasoning: Essays in Honour of Fred Schauer, (Linda Meyer ed., 1999) and special issues of the Notre Dame, Connecticut, and Quinnipiac Law Reviews, Politeia, Ratio Juris, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Alexander Tsesis, Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Alexander Tsesis is Professor of Law at Loyola University, Chicago, School of Law faculty. He teaches Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Civil Procedure, and seminars devoted to civil rights issues and constitutional interpretation. His articles have appeared in a variety of law reviews across the country, including the Columbia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, University of California-Davis Law Review, and Boston College Law Review. Professor Tsesis is a frequent presenter to law school faculties nationwide on issues involving constitutional law, civil rights, and hate speech legislation. Professor Tsesis has also served as an outside manuscript reviewer for the Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Illinois Press, New York University Press, Oxford University Press, and Yale University Press. He has been an expert witness for the Canadian Department of Justice and a legislative advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy. 4 The 34th Annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium Emory University School of Law5 SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS Laura Weinrib, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School Laura Weinrib is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. A legal historian, her scholarship explores the intersection of constitutional law and labor law, with an emphasis on the social and cultural history of legal advocacy and ideas. Her current book project is The Taming of Free Speech (under contract with Harvard University Press). Based on extensive research in the ACLU records, among other sources, it traces the emergence during the first half of the twentieth century of a constitutional concept of civil liberties, enforced by the courts, which protected speakers and ideas regardless of their popularity or perceived legitimacy. Professor Weinrib is a 2003 graduate of Harvard Law School. After law school, she clerked for Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She completed her Ph.D. in history at Princeton University in 2011. Her dissertation, The Liberal Compromise: Civil Liberties, Labor, and the Limits of State Power, 1917–1940, received the Cromwell Prize for the best dissertation in legal history by the American Society for Legal History. Prior to joining the University of Chicago Law School faculty, she was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at the New York University School of Law. She is an Associate Member of the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Julie Seaman, Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law Julie Seaman teaches Evidence and a seminar on the First Amendment. Professor Seaman received her BA. from the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude) and her JD from Harvard (magna cum laude), where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a teaching assistant for the federal litigation course. She clerked with federal district court Judge Robert J. Ward and she has taught legal writing as an adjunct professor at Stetson University School of Law. Jane Bambauer, Associate Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law Jane Bambauer is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arizona College of Law. Professor Bambauer’s research assesses the social costs and benefits of data, and questions the wisdom of many well-intentioned privacy laws. Her articles have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Professor Bambauer’s own data-driven research explores biased judgment, legal education, and legal careers. Professor Bambauer holds a BS in mathematics from Yale College and a JD from Yale Law School. She occasionally writes for The Huffington Post and Info/Law. 6 The 34th Annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS Richard Delgado, Professor and John J. Sparkman Chair of Law, University of Alabama School of Law One of the leading commentators on race in the United States, Richard Delgado has appeared on Good Morning America, the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, PBS, NPR, the Fred Friendly Show, and Canadian NPR. Author of over 180 journal articles and twenty eight books, his work has been praised or reviewed in The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. His books have won eight national book prizes, including six Gustavus Myers Awards for outstanding book on human rights in North America, the American Library Association’s Outstanding Academic Book, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. His career and book, The Rodrigo Chronicles, were described by Stanley Fish in the following terms: Richard Delgado is a triple pioneer. He was the first to question free speech ideology; he and a few others invented critical race theory; and he is both a theorist and an exemplar of the importance of storytelling in the workings of the law. This volume brings all of Delgado’s strengths together in a stunning performance. Professor Delgado lives with his wife, legal writer Jean Stefancic, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he holds the title of Professor and John J. Sparkman Chair of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. Jean Stefancic, Professor of Law, Clement Research Affiliate, University of Alabama School of Law Jean Stefancic is Professor of Law & Clement Research Affiliate at the University of Alabama School of Law, where she teaches and writes about civil rights, law reform, social change, and legal scholarship. She has written and co-authored over 40 articles and 17 books, many with her husband Richard Delgado, with whom she shared writing residencies at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and Centrum. Their book, Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror, won a Gustavus Myers Award for outstanding book on human rights in North America. Her book, How Lawyers Lose Their Way, examines how law practice can stifle creativity. Professors Stefancic and Delgado also serve as co-editors for two book series. Before joining the Alabama faculty, Professor Stefancic spent ten years at the University of Colorado Law School, where she served as an affiliate of the Latino/a Research & Policy Center and on the advisory committee of the Center of the American West. During her years at the University of Pittsburgh she was Research Professor of Law & Derrick Bell Scholar; at Seattle University she was Research Professor of Law. Emory University School of Law7 SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS Tejinder Singh, Counsel, Goldstein & Russell, P.C. Derek Bambauer, Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law Tejinder Singh is a counsel at the law firm Goldstein & Russell, P.C., which focuses on litigation in the Supreme Court of the United States. He represents parties and amici before the Court and lower courts on a broad range of issues, including the First Amendment. In 2014, he argued and won the case Lane v. Franks on behalf of petitioner Edward Lane, where the Court held that public employees are entitled to First Amendment protection for their subpoenaed testimony even when that testimony relates to the subject matter of their employment. Tejinder has been named to the National Law Journal’s 2014 Washington DC Rising Stars list, and to the 2015 Super Lawyers Washington DC Rising Stars list. In addition to his litigation work, Tejinder is a regular contributor to SCOTUSblog. Derek Bambauer is Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, where he teaches Internet law and intellectual property. His research treats Internet censorship, cybersecurity, and intellectual property. He has also written technical articles on data recovery and fault tolerance, and on deployment of software upgrades. A former principal systems engineer at Lotus Development Corp. (part of IBM), Professor Bambauer spent two years as a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. At the Berkman Center, he was a member of the OpenNet Initiative, an academic consortium that tests and studies Internet censorship in countries such as China, Iran, and Vietnam. He is one of the authors of Info/Law, a popular blog that addresses Internet law, intellectual property, and information law. He holds an AB from Harvard College and a JD from Harvard Law School. Gerald Weber, Principal, The Weber Law Offices, Adjunct Professor, Emory University School of Law, Georgia State College of Law Gerry Weber is principal in The Weber Law Offices and focuses on constitutional, civil rights, libel and media law and general litigation. Gerry Weber served for 17 years as Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. He also currently serves as a Senior Staff Counsel at the Southern Center for Human Rights, and is an Adjunct Professor at Emory University School of Law and Georgia State College of Law in constitutional litigation, media law and the First Amendment. Gerry clerked for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was named one of the 21 Young Lawyers Leading Us Into the 21st Century by the American Bar Association and Top 40 Achievers under 40 by Georgia Trend Magazine. Gerry Weber has litigated against federal, state and local governments and agencies and some of the largest corporations in the United States. He has successfully struck down numerous laws ranging from state restrictions on the Internet to state laws barring fornication and sodomy. He also has chalked up one of the largest monetary awards in the history of the State of Georgia—a $440 million judgment in an international human rights case against a Serbian government torturer. 8 The 34th Annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium Caroline Mala Corbin, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law Caroline Mala Corbin is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. She teaches US Constitutional Law I, US Constitutional Law II, First Amendment, the Religion Clauses, and Feminism and the First Amendment. Her scholarship focuses on the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses, particularly their intersection with equality issues. Professor Corbin’s articles have been published in the New York University Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Boston University Law Review, and Iowa Law Review, among others. Her writing has also appeared in the online editions of Harvard Law Review, Texas Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. As well as writing for blogs such as Concurring Opinions, ACSblog, and Jurist, Professor Corbin is a frequent commentator for local and national media on First Amendment questions. Professor Corbin joined the Miami law faculty in 2008 after completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at Columbia Law School. Before her fellowship, she litigated civil rights cases as a pro bono fellow at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and as an attorney at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. She also clerked for the Honorable M. Blane Michael of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Professor Corbin holds a BA from Harvard University and a JD from Columbia Law School. She was a James Kent Scholar while at Columbia Law School, where she also won the Pauline Berman Heller Prize and the James A. Elkins Prize for Constitutional Law. Emory University School of Law9 SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS David Han, Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law David Han is an Associate Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law. His scholarship focuses on freedom of speech issues and tort law, and his articles have appeared in the New York University Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and Wisconsin Law Review. Before joining the Pepperdine faculty, Professor Han served as an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law and practiced as a litigation associate with Munger, Tolles & Olson, where he worked on a broad range of trial and appellate matters. Immediately following law school, Professor Han served as a law clerk for the Honorable Michael Boudin on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for the Honorable David H. Souter on the Supreme Court of the United States. Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law & Justice and European Centre for Law & Justice Jay Sekulow is Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice and the European Centre for Law and Justice. An accomplished and internationally respected judicial advocate, Sekulow has presented oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States in numerous cases in the defense of constitutional freedoms, especially those involving religious liberty. The National Law Journal has twice named Sekulow one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America. He is the author of numerous publications and legal articles. His most recent book, Rise of ISIS, reached number one on the New York Times bestseller’s list. In 2014, Sekulow was honored by the Greek Orthodox Order of St. Andrew the Apostle with the prestigious Athenagoras Human Rights Award. Previous recipients of the award include Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Arch-Bishop Desmond Tutu. In 2014, Dr. Sekulow was appointed a Senior Fellow at Emory University School of Law. SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS Thomas C. Arthur, L.Q.C. Lamar Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law Tom Arthur has been a faculty member at the Emory University School of Law since 1982, specializing in antitrust, civil procedure/ jurisdiction, First Amendment, and administrative law. In addition to serving as a member of the faculty, Tom has served as dean (2002–2005), Emory’s interim vice provost for international affairs and interim director of Emory’s Halle Institute (2000–2002), the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs (1989–1997), and was co-director of the law school’s American Law Center in Moscow (1996–1997). Prior to joining the Emory faculty, Professor Arthur had been a partner at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, DC. In Atlanta, he served as counsel to Trotter, Smith & Jacobs from 1984 to 1992. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and is a member of the D.C. and Virginia bars. Professor Arthur is noted for his scholarly contributions in antitrust and federal jurisdiction. His major antitrust law are cited in many casebooks and treatises, as are his Emory Law Journal articles (co-authored with Professor Richard D. Freer) criticizing the supplemental jurisdiction statute (28 U.S.C § 1367). Professor Arthur holds an AB from Duke University, where he was an Angier B. Duke scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Yale University. He and his wife, Carolyn, have two sons. Jay Sekulow received his PhD from Regent University, with a dissertation on American Legal History, is an honors graduate of Mercer Law School, where he served on the Mercer Law Review, and an honors graduate of Mercer University. Sekulow completed an Executive Program at Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Management. He was appointed a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University at Harris Manchester College where he lectured on Middle East Affairs and International Law. He completed postdoctoral studies at Oxford University’s History, Politics and Society program on Religion and the Middle East. Jay Sekulow has also served as a faculty member for the Office of Legal Education at the United States Department of Justice and has lectured around the globe. Immediately following graduation from law school, he served as a tax trial attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, United States Department of the Treasury. 10 The 34th Annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium Emory University School of Law11 RANDOLPH W. THROWER Randolph W. Thrower was a leader in virtually every endeavor of his long and active life, which included a remarkable legal career, a dedication to public service, and a devotion to Emory University. Thrower graduated from Emory University (BPh 1934; JD 1936, first honors). He joined the law firm of Sutherland, Tuttle & Brennan in 1936, practiced in the firm’s Atlanta and Washington offices, and was proud to be a partner at Sutherland until his death. During World War II he served in the FBI as a Special Agent (1942–1943) and as Captain in the United States Marine Corps, with overseas service in the Philippines and Okinawa (1944–1945). He returned to the firm and practiced primarily in the area of federal taxation, including tax controversies, litigation, estate planning and administration, and general corporate and individual tax related matters. From 1969 to 1971 Thrower served as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. In that position he worked through many high profile and contentious issues, including the development of a policy to deny tax exempt status for private schools that discriminate on the basis of race. But the most difficult issues were not visible to the public. Thrower steadfastly refused efforts by the Nixon White House to misuse the IRS, and as a result, was directed by the President to resign. He quietly returned to the practice of law; only after the Watergate hearings did he understand what he had been dealing with and speak publicly of his experiences. Thrower’s integrity, courage, and fairness in these and other matters were widely recognized and applauded. Thrower was President of the American Bar Foundation, the research arm of the ABA, and served for ten years on its executive committee. He was Chair of the ABA’s Section on Taxation and served in the ABA House of Delegates for 17 years. He was a member of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession from its inception in 1987 until 1993, and was Chair of the State Bar Committee on the Involvement of Women and Minorities in the Profession. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Court of Federal RANDOLPH W. THROWER Claims Bar Association. He was a founding trustee, in 1963, of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He was also President of the Atlanta Bar Association, the Lawyers Club of Atlanta, and the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. From 1980 to 1992 he served as chair of the City of Atlanta’s Board of Ethics and was co-chair of an investigation into allegations of cheating on police promotion exams. Well into his nineties he was Chair of the Georgia Wilderness Institutes, which provide alternatives to incarceration for criminally-delinquent youth. In 1993 the ABA awarded him the American Bar Association Medal, its highest honor, for exceptionally distinguished service by a lawyer to the cause of American jurisprudence. Thrower received many other accolades, including honorary degrees from Emory University (1984) and Wesleyan College (2006), the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Eleventh Circuit, the Leadership Award of the Atlanta Bar Association, the Founders Award of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Lifetime AntiDefamation League Achievement Award, a special tribute from the Atlanta Legal Aid Society on its 75th anniversary, and the Coverdell Good Government Award. In 2008 Thrower was honored by the Fulton County Daily Report, which described him as a “Living Legend of the Law.” Thrower passed away at the age of 100 in March of 2014. The Emory Law Journal and Emory University School of Law are privileged to honor his memory and accomplishments by continuing to host this Symposium which bears his name and whose success results from his contributions and support. The Emory Law Journal thanks the members of the Thrower Symposium Committee: Patricia Thrower Barmeyer, Wilson G. Barmeyer, Judge Frank Hull, John Mayoue, Joseph Blanco, Dean Robert Schapiro, Professor Julie Seaman, and Professor Charles Shanor for their support of the Symposium. We also thank Amy Tozer, Beth Damon, Rhonda Heermans, Alyssa Ashdown, Eric Jackson, Lisa Ashmore, and Carletta Gunby for their invaluable assistance and fortitude. Finally, we thank Professor Alexander Tsesis for help and guidance in the overall realization of this year’s Symposium. 12 The 34th Annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium Emory University School of Law13
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