Global Review Speaker to Discuss "When Government Keeps Us in the Dark"

The conflicts between freedom of the press and national security will be discussed by Geoffrey Stone, a 35-year member of the law faculty and former dean of the Law School at the University of Chicago, at Illinois State University’s Global Review on Jan. 31.

Admission to “Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark,” co-sponsored by the Global Review Student Association and the League of Women Voters, is free and open to the public.  It will take place in the Old Main Room of Bone Student Center.

Stone is a 1971 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Law Review. Stone, who is a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., is currently the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at Chicago and served as provost at the university for nine years.

As a writer, Stone primarily deals with the field of constitutional law.  He had two books published last year, one with the same title as his Jan. 31 lecture and the other, “War and Liberty: An American Dilemma.”  His previous books have won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Hefner Award for best book on the First Amendment and the Harvard University Goldsmith Award for the best book in the field of Public Affairs.

Stone is currently chief editor of the 15-volume series titled “Inalienable Rights,” which is being published by the Oxford University Press between 2006 and 2010.