Eric Kasper, PhD, is a professor of political science and the director of the Menard Center for Constitutional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He has authored or co-authored multiple scholarly publications on the First Amendment, including “Absolute Freedom of Opinion and Sentiment on All Subjects: John Stuart Mill’s Enduring (and Ever-Growing) Influence on the Supreme Court’s First Amendment Free Speech Jurisprudence;” “Public Universities and the First Amendment: Controversial Speakers, Protests, and Free Speech Policies”; and “Did Five Supreme Court Justices Go ‘Completely Bonkers’”; Saul Goodman, Legal Advertising, and the First Amendment Since Bates v. State Bar of Arizona.”

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