UC Davis Magazine Quotes Professors Bhagwat, Soucek on Parameters of Free Speech

Professors Ashutosh Bhagwat and Brian Soucek, both constitutional law scholars, spoke to UC Davis Magazine for a Jan. 9 story on how the right to free speech applies to social media companies, public institutions like UC Davis and its faculty, and elsewhere.

Ashutosh Bhagwat, 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. He is the author of the 2020 book Our Democratic First Amendment (Cambridge University Press).

Professor Soucek’s primary teaching and research interests are antidiscrimination law, civil procedure, constitutional law, and refugee/asylum law. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Mark R. Kravitz in Connecticut, and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Soucek is a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow.