Howard C. Kaplan Memorial Lecture on Law and Society Presents "The Right to Know Versus the Power to Hide: Press Freedom and the Fight Over Secrets," with Ben Wizner, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU, and Director of its Center for Democracy

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Ben Wizner, Deputy Legal Director and Director, Center for Democracy of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), will be the guest speaker of our 2026 Howard C. Kaplan Memorial Lecture on Law and Society. Registration required. Ben Wizner is a Deputy Legal Director at the ACLU and Director of its Center for Democracy, which encompasses the organization’s work on free speech, privacy, immigrants’ rights, voting rights, human rights and national security. Prior to assuming this role, he was the director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. In more than two decades at the ACLU, he has litigated cases involving the right to protest, freedom of expression online, government surveillance practices, airport security policies, targeted killing, and torture. Since July of 2013, he has been the principal legal advisor to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Wizner is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law, and was a law clerk to the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. This lecture is part of the annual Howard C. Kaplan Memorial Lecture on Law and Society and is supported by the Stamford law firm Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky and the family of the late Howard Kaplan.

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Ferguson Library

1 Public Library Plaza, Stamford, CT 06904

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