The University of Michigan Senate's Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom was established in 1990 to honor three professors.:
Clement L. Markert (left)
Mark Nickerson (center), and
H. Chandler Davis (right),
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Advisory Board
Lee C. Bollinger
President and Professor of Law
Columbia University
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Vincent A. Blasi
Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties
Columbia University School of Law
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William E. Bolcom
Professor of Composition Emeritus
School of Music, Theatre and Dance
University of Michigan
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Vartan Gregorian
President
Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Jeffrey S. Lehman
Vice-Chancellor
New York University Shanghai
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Catharine A. MacKinnon
Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law
University of Michigan
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Robert M. O'Neil
University Professor and Professor of Law Emeritus
Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the
Protection of Free Expression
University of Virginia
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Eugene L. Roberts, Jr.
Professor of Journalism
University of Maryland - College Park
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Nadine Strossen
Professor of Law
New York Law School
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Board of Directors
Juan R. Cole
Louis G. D'Alecy
Peggie J. Hollingsworth, President
Kimberlee J. Kearfott
Gary D. Krenz
Thomas E. Moore, Secretary
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E. Ian Robinson
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