A recording of this speech from the University of Georgia Law Library archival collection was digitally preserved from audio cassette tape to digital in 2023 and made publicly available in 2024. Digitization, metadata creation, and increased discoverability of this record was made possible thanks to a grant from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council. The primary archival object is a digitized audio cassette recording of Emerson's speech.

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Event Date

3-11-1981

Abstract

Emerson, who taught law for 35 years and argued numerous cases on First Amendment issues for the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild, concluded the "Perspectives on the First Amendment" held at the School of Law April 9-11 by presenting the Sibley Lecture. The John A. Sibley Lecture series was expanded to four lecture visits this year in recognition of Emerson's address.

A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 17, Issue 1, Spring 1981 on page 9: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol17/iss1/1/

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