Printer Friendly Version - Robert C. Post, Constitutional Law Expert, Discusses 'Understanding Citizens United' Nov. 3 in Branford

On Sunday, November 3, the Branford Forum will host a free talk, 'Understanding Citizens United: The Constitutional Question of Campaign Finance Reform,' given by prestigious Constitutional Law scholar and author Robert Post, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School. The talk will take place at 2 p.m. at Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library in Stony Creek.Photo from https://law.yale.edu/robert-c-post

Free Talk by Sterling Professor of Yale Law School on Constitutional Question of Campaign Finance Reform

On Sunday, November 3, the Branford Forum will host a free talk, "Understanding Citizens United: The Constitutional Question of Campaign Finance Reform," given by prestigious Constitutional Law scholar and author Robert Post, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School.

With Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibited government from limiting independent campaign expenditures by corporations and labor unions. How should we understand, practically and constitutionally, the role of money in US elections? What are the implications for reforming our current regime of campaign financing?

The public is encouraged to attend the forum, which will be held from 2 – 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3 at the Willoughby Wallace Library, 146 Thimble Island Road in Stony Creek, Branford

Post's subject areas are constitutional law, First Amendment, legal history, and equal protection. His biography, which appears at https://law.yale.edu/robert-c-post shares that Post served as the school's 16th dean from 2009 until 2017. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. Post specializes in constitutional law, with a particular emphasis on the First Amendment. He is also a legal historian who is currently writing Volume X of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States, which will cover the period 1921-30 when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. Post has written and edited numerous books and publishes regularly in legal journals and other publications. Post is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Branford Forum hosts a free public education series for residents. The presentations and subsequent discussions are generally offered monthly on Sundays at the Willoughby Wallace Memorial at 2 p.m.; posted under Events at https://www.wwml.org Upcoming on Sunday, Dec. 1 at 2 p.m., the Branford Forum will host a talk given by　Olivia Stokes Dreier, Karuna Center for Peacebuilding: Healing and Reconciliation in Rwanda.