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CLEVELAND, Ohio- Professor Justin Driver, author of "The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind" and an award-winning Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law and counselor to the dean at Yale Law School, will speak at the City Club of Cleveland for a luncheon at 11:30am on Fri, Sept 2, 2022.

Professor Driver teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law. He comes to downtown Cleveland this week as part of the City Club's  Authors in Conversation series, a series held in cooperation with Case Western Reserve University and sponsored by the  John P. Murphy Foundation through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. The speaking forum begins at noon after lunch begins and will be streamed live. TO PURCHASE LUCHEON TICKETS FOR THE SEPTEMBER 2 FORUM WITH AUTHOR JUSTIN DRIVER CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND WEBSITE AT CITYCLUB.ORG WHERE THE EVENT CAN ALSO BE WATCHED LIVE STREAM,

Founded in 1912  as a citadel of free speech, the City Club of Cleveland is a debate venue and one of the oldest acknowledged free speech forums in America. Its speakers have included everyone from former president Bill Clinton during his hey day to Will Rogers and the late Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu.

After the luncheon forum on Friday, a book signing with Driver will be held, also at the City Club. Mac's Backs will be on site for book sales.The book is also available for pre-order here for pick up at Mac's Backs, or the City Club.

Race, sex, religion, crime, liberty, patriotism, equality. The Supreme Court's treatment of these incendiary topics has indelibly shaped public education and students' constitutional rights around the country. From intentionally drawing school districts to be more racially diverse, corporal punishment, and whether undocumented immigrants should have access to free public education, these rulings have lasting impacts both inside and outside of the schoolhouse gate.

In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court's majority, in Tinker vs Des Moines Independent School District, ruled that neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate, a landmark decision that came 15 years after the Supreme Court outlawed racial disctrimination in public education relative to its 1954  Brown vs Board of Education decision, also a landmark decision.

Also a respected orator, Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated responsibility in protecting students' rights, risking transforming public schools into Constitution-free zones where the Constitution is often disregarded or misinterpreted. Driver's  book examines the power of the Supreme Court inside the American school system during a time when a sweeping pandemic and mass shootings occupy the nation's public schools and state lawmakers across the country are authoritizing guns in schools for public schoool teachers and other personnel.

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