Free Speech and Higher Education, 03/18
Presented by the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy
With support from the H. Hovnanian Family Foundation
The Honorable Kyle Duncan
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Monday, March 18
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Laurence E. Hirsch ’71 Classroom (Room 101)
John F. Scarpa Hall
The McCullen Center welcomes Judge Kyle Duncan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to discuss free speech and higher education. The program will address constitutional protections and limitations on free speech, the rise of campus illiberalism, recent controversies about free speech and antisemitism, the new American Bar Association standard requiring law schools to adopt free speech policies and Judge Duncan’s encounter with student protesters at Stanford Law School in 2023.
The Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board has approved this symposium for 1 Ethics CLE credit. Please note registration for this event is required.
Judge Duncan received his BA from Louisiana State University in 1994, his JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in 1997 and his LLM from Columbia Law School in 2004.
After graduating from law school, he clerked for Louisiana-based Circuit Judge John Malcolm Duhé Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. From 2008–2012, Duncan served as appellate chief for Louisiana's Attorney General's office. From 2012–2014, he served as general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. From 2004–2008, he was an assistant professor of law at the University of Mississippi School of Law.
Before becoming a judge, Duncan practiced at the Washington, DC firm of Schaerr Duncan LLP, where he was a founding partner. President Trump appointed him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on May 1, 2018.
