First Amendment Panel

Chair of the Faculty Michael Gerhardt is hosting a panel on the First Amendment and how it protects free expression on our campus. All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.

Suzanne Globetti (moderator) is a teaching associate professor in the political science department at UNC. She teaches courses in American government, including the introductory course, campaigns and elections, and analyzing public opinion.

Prior to joining the UNC faculty, she taught at Bowdoin College and Vanderbilt University, where she received the Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Robert Birkby Teaching Award. Globetti received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Daniel Rice (panelist) is an assistant professor at UNC Law, where he teaches constitutional , First Amendment, and federal Indian law. His recent scholarship explores the interaction between cultural and legal change, the interpretive significance of moral outrage, and the geopolitical foundations of federal Indian law. Rice’s work has appeared in several leading law reviews.

Prior to joining academia, Rice clerked for Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, as well as Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Rice also worked as an attorney at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center. Rice graduated summa cum laude from the Duke University School of Law. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Mark Storslee is an associate professor and C. Boyden Gray Distinguished Scholar at UNC Law. His scholarship focuses on constitutional history, religious freedom, and First Amendment law generally.

Storslee clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and later for Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch on the United States Supreme Court. He also previously served as the Executive Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (ethics) from the University of Virginia.