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Join a CWRU STUDENT PANEL for a program featuring
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Bryan Adamson, J.D.
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Brian Ray, J.D.
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The Constitution Day program will provoke a lively exchange of ideas. Student panelists will lead the exchange. The goal is to engage in a fruitful conversation about freedom of speech in the digital age, specifically in regards to the Supreme Court’s decisions in Mahoney Areas School District v. BL (2021) and Moody v. NewChoice, LLC (2024). Everyone welcomes the two speakers, Bryan Adamson and Brian Ray.
Bryan Adamson earned his J.D. from CWRU in 1990, after earning a B.S. (Miami University) and M.A. (Purdue University) in Mass Communication Studies. He practiced litigation with Squire, Sanders and Dempsey and as a Cuyahoga County Assistant Prosecutor before returning to Case in 1995 as a professor with the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center. At Case he counseled students in civil litigation cases, such as against foreclosures and predatory landing practices, and served as Assistant Dean for Student Services. In 2002 he moved to Seattle University School of Law where he taught for 18 years, including direction of its nationally ranked Clinical program. Professor Adamson returned to Case in 2020 as Brennan Chaired Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion. His many articles focus especially on mass media and first amendment law, being published in a wide range of journals including Yale Law and Policy Review, Harvard Journal of Racial and Ethnic Justice, and Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy. He has practiced extensively in the areas of re-entry advocacy, housing, mortgage lending and consumer protection.
Co-Interim Dean Brian Ray started his teaching career at Cleveland State University College of Law in 2006 and most recently served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Online Programs. He helped to launch the Law College’s online J.D. program, which has nearly tripled first-year enrollment in the part-time program. His research focuses on cybersecurity, data privacy, and AI law and policy. He has been the principal investigator and part of interdisciplinary research teams that have received over $4.5 million for projects related to cybersecurity and data privacy education, surveillance technologies, and pandemic preparation and response. He co-founded and directs the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection and created and directs the online Master of Legal Studies in Cybersecurity & Data Privacy. He serves on the CyberOhio Advisory Board, which drafted Ohio’s first-in-the-nation incentive-based cybersecurity law and served on the Ohio Attorney General Facial Recognition Task Force. He also is expert in comparative constitutional law and spent 2013 as a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa conducting research for his book Engaging with Social Rights (Cambridge Univ. Press 2016).
Program planned by the 2026 CWRU Society for Constitutional Policy:
Ella Cimperman (president), Joseph Cimperman (treasurer),
Caroline Flannery (secretary), Sophie Gerew (risk manager),
Adam Joseph (vice president)
Faculty Advisors: William Doll, Andrew Lucker,
Laura Tartakoff, and Joe White
Sponsored by the Office of the President,
Office of Government and Community Relations,
Department of Political Science,
Center for Policy Studies, and School of Law
A reception will follow at the Law School