Strossen to deliver Adrian College Constitution Day address
Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2025
Professor Nadine Strossen will deliver Adrian College’s Philip J. Prygoski Constitution Day Address at noon in Knight Auditorium on Wednesday, Sept. 17.
Her address titled “Does Free Speech Go Too Far?” is expected to last 50 minutes.
The event, co-sponsored by Adrian College’s Romney Institute for Law and Public Policy, and the Voices for Liberty Initiative at the George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, is free and open to the public.
Strossen, a New York Law School Professor Emerita and Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, was the national President of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008.
An internationally acclaimed free speech scholar and advocate who regularly addresses diverse audiences and provides media commentary around the world, Strossen is the host and project consultant for Free To Speak, a three-hour documentary film series distributed on public television.
Strossen has authored several books on freedom of expression and appeared on national television for decades as an expert on constitutional rights and civil liberties.
Her most recent books are: The War On Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech — And Why They Fail (coauthored with FIRE President Greg Lukianoff); Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (2023); HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018); and Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights (1995), which was republished with a new Preface in 2024 as part of the NYU Classics Series.
In 2023, Strossen received the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Free Speech. She serves on the Advisory Boards of several free speech/academic freedom organizations, including ACLU, Academic Freedom Alliance, Foundation Against Intolerance 3 and Racism (FAIR), Heterodox Academy, National Coalition Against Censorship, and Voices for Liberty Initiative.
“Her presentations, panel discussions and debates, including those with William F. Buckley Jr. on PBS’s “Firing Line,” are models of scholarly excellence, eloquence and argumentation,” said Nathan Goetting, Adrian College professor of criminal justice and jurisprudence. “Professor Strossen’s expertise and commitment to elevated discourse on issues of public concern are admired by leaders on both sides of the political divide and at the highest levels of the American judiciary, as shown by her friendships with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia.”
For more information about the event, email Goetting at ngoetting@adrian.edu.
