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Long-time New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the new Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, will be featured speaker at a May 5 forum — The First Amendment: How Free Are We? in West Hartford. The Milton Sorokin Symposium, a joint effort of the University of Connecticut School of Law and CFAR, the Center for First Amendment Rights, will be held in the auditorium of the University of Connecticut West Hartford campus, 1800 Asylum Avenue between Trout Brook Drive and North Main Street, at 7 p.m. on Monday May 5. Also on the program will be Chris Finan, activist, historian and leader of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and of the National Coalition Against Censorship -- and author of another book on First Amendment history, From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act. Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and winner of the American Bar Foundation award as 2008 Legal Scholar, will moderate. She is an expert in open courts, and supplied testimony to Congress on the Sunshine Act now pending. A dessert reception will follow the program. The event is free; no advance registration is needed. 
Two panelists will be prepared to sell and sign their recent books.
Parking for May 5 CFAR Symposium
Directions to May 5 CFAR Symposium
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