Rob Corry's guest appearances

Rob Corry

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast

Elon Musk

Tyler Cowen

Annie Duke

Steven Pinker

Eugene Volokh

Bret Weinstein

Alfred Hitchcock

Greg Lukianoff

David Cole

Matt Taibbi

Geoffrey Miller

Daryl Davis

John McWhorter

Lenny Bruce

Glenn Greenwald

OwlTail

In 1994, law student Rob Corry joined with eight other students to file a legal challenge to a Stanford University speech code. It was the first-ever lawsuit filed under California’s recently-enacted “Leonard Law,” which applies First Amendment protections to private, non-sectarian colleges in the state of California (like Stanford), and which the students argued made Stanford’s restrictions on free speech unlawful. Winning wasn’t going to be easy: Corry would be representing himself and his co-plaintiffs against one of America’s richest and most powerful research universities. On Feb. 27, 1995—22 years ago this month—a California state court judge sided with Corry and struck down Stanford’s speech code as an impermissible content-based restriction on expression. The victory earned Corry the title of “speech code slayer" in a campus newspaper. Today, on “So to Speak,” we talk with Corry of Corry v. Stanford about the seminal lawsuit, how he overcame the challenges of representing himself in court, and why other students should feel emboldened by his victory to challenge their colleges’ speech codes. www.sotospeakpodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/freespeechtalk Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast Email us: sotospeak@thefire.org Call in a question: 215-315-0100

In 1994, law student Rob Corry joined with eight other students to file a legal challenge to a Stanford University speech code. It was the first-ever lawsuit filed under California’s recently-enacted “Leonard Law,” which applies First Amendment protections to private, non-sectarian colleges in the state of California (like Stanford), and which the students argued made Stanford’s restrictions on free speech unlawful. Winning wasn’t going to be easy: Corry would be representing himself and his co-plaintiffs against one of America’s richest and most powerful research universities. On Feb. 27, 1995—22 years ago this month—a California state court judge sided with Corry and struck down Stanford’s speech code as an impermissible content-based restriction on expression. The victory earned Corry the title of “speech code slayer" in a campus newspaper. Today, on “So to Speak,” we talk with Corry of Corry v. Stanford about the seminal lawsuit, how he overcame the challenges of representing himself in court, and why other students should feel emboldened by his victory to challenge their colleges’ speech codes. <a href="http://www.sotospeakpodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sotospeakpodcast.com</a> Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://www.twitter.com/freespeechtalk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter.com/freespeechtalk</a> Like us on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast</a> Email us: <a href="mailto:sotospeak@thefire.org">sotospeak@thefire.org</a> Call in a question: 215-315-0100

Ep. 23 Rob Corry, ‘speech code slayer’