Professor Bhagwat speaks at William & Mary, ASU, Hastings

Professor Ashutosh Bhagwat spoke last week at the 2019 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal Symposium at William & Mary Law School in Virginia.

Bhagwat addressed the intersection of compelled speech and religious exercise at the symposium, the theme of which was “Constitutional Rights: Intersections, Synergies, and Conflicts.” His talk, titled “The Conscience of the Baker: Religion and Compelled Speech,” explored the 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case, which hinged on a Colorado baker’s refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

In February, Bhagwat spoke at an event presented by Arizona State University’s School of Civil and Economic Thought and Leadership and titled “Polarization and Civil Disagreement: Confronting America’s Civic Crisis.”

Also in February, Bhagwat participated in a panel at the annual Hastings Law Journal symposium in San Francisco. The symposium was dedicated to recently retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s time on the bench. Bhagwat, who clerked for Kennedy at the Supreme Court, was part of the “Justice Kennedy and the First Amendment” panel.

Ashutosh Bhagwat, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, is an innovative, broad-ranging, and widely published constitutional law scholar.