First Amendment Conference

• 9:30 a.m.  |  Clarke Building  |  Session 1  | Matthew Brogdon  |  Introduction
• 10 a.m.  |  Clarke Building   |  Session 2  |  Stephanie Barclay  |  Keynote Address
• 11:30 a.m.  | Clarke Building  |   Session 3  |  Panel Discussion  |  Constitutional Controversies in Public Education
• 12:30 p.m.  |  Lunch Break
• 2:30 p.m.  |  Clarke Building   |  Session 4  |  Panel Discussion | Religion and Civic Education in Utah 
• 3:45 p.m. |  Adjourn

Presenters and Panelists

• Stephanie Barclay  |  Stephanie Barclay is a professor of Law and Anne Fleming Research Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and the faculty director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Her work examines the relationship between constitutional rights and democratic governance, with particular emphasis on religious liberty, free speech, and the protection of minority communities. Barclay’s work is published or is forthcoming in leading journals such as the Chicago Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, Harvard Law Review, the Journal of Law and Religion (Cambridge Univ. Press), the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum. Her forthcoming book, Constitutional Rights in a Democracy, is under contract with Oxford University Press, and she is an editor of the forthcoming book, Collective Action and Responsibility in Law, under contract with Cambridge University Press. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, Bloomberg BNA, The Hill, and Law 360. And her work has also been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Steven Collis  |  Holds joint appointments as a tenured professor in the School of Law, the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center, and the School of Civic Leadership (by courtesy). He researches and teaches on religion law, constitutional law, productive discourse, and other First Amendment topics. He is the founding faculty director of the First Amendment Center. Before joining Texas, he was a research fellow in the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and an equity partner at Holland & Hart LLP. His scholarly work has been cited widely. Professor Collis is also the author of four critically acclaimed books, including Habits of a Peacemaker. When reviewing it, the American Library Association hailed Collis as "a much-needed voice of reason and compromise."
   
• Matthew Brogdon  |  The Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Chair, Senior Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies, and Associate Professor of Government and Civic Life at Utah Valley University. His teaching and research focus on the Constitution, federal courts, political philosophy, federalism, and civic education. He is completing a book on Article III of the Constitution and the development of judicial power in the United States. Dr. Brogdon co-hosts the Center’s podcast, This Constitution, and works with Oxford University’s Quill Project to make the history of American constitution-making accessible to scholars, jurists, teachers, students, and the public.
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