Professor Bhagwat to Receive Free Speech Scholarship Award

Professor Ashutosh Bhagwat’s 2025 book Killing the Messenger: The War on Social Media (Cambridge University Press) has been recognized with the Excellence in Free Speech Scholarship Award by the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center at the University of Texas-Austin School of Law.

Bhagwat will accept the award and deliver a keynote speech on Feb. 25 at UT-Austin.

Ashutosh Bhagwat, Distinguished Professor of Law, Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality, and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, is an innovative, broad-ranging, and widely published constitutional law scholar.