Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project and Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC), will leave his position at the end of 2022 after a 13-year tenure at the College.

In 2021, Calvert was named the UF Teacher/Scholar of the Year, the first CJC faculty member to win UF’s most prestigious and oldest faculty award. As a result of that award, he was selected to receive one of 14 2022 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Awards. He was also inducted into UF’s Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars.

In 2017, he was awarded a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship and was one of CJC’s eight inaugural recipients of UF’s new term professorships recognizing academic achievements and supporting the University’s preeminence initiative. He  also served as one of the College’s UF Faculty Senate representatives for two terms from 2013-2019.

Calvert is considered one of the foremost experts on First Amendment law and has been a frequent source for stories about the First Amendment and freedom of expression. Since 2012, he has been cited in more than 200 stories in mainstream publications.  Since 2015, his op-ed commentaries have appeared in CNN.com, Fortune, Huffington Post, Newsweek, New Republic, Tampa Bay Times, Time and The Conversation.

Calvert has authored or co-authored more than 150 law journal articles on topics related to freedom of expression. He has published articles in journals affiliated with the law schools at Arizona State University, Boston College, Boston University, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, University of California Berkeley, University of California Los Angeles, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Tulane, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Washington & Lee and William & Mary, among others.

He is co-author of a market-leading undergraduate media law textbook, Mass Media Law, now in its 22nd edition, and is author of the book Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture.

As director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, he has filed, as counsel of record, multiple friend-of-the-court briefs with the United States Supreme Court in cases such as Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Elonis v. United States and Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association.

Calvert also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Law with the Levin College of Law.

Posted: May 31, 2022
Category: College News, Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project News
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