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Emily Bazelon
Staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School
Let’s Start Drama: Bullying and the Law
Join Emily Bazelon as she brings her legal experience to bear on the issue of bullying in schools. Courts are splitting over whether schools have the authority to discipline students for what they post online, even if it’s cruel and directed toward another student, because it is off-campus speech. In this confusing landscape, what should schools and parents do? What about social network sites like Facebook—what kind of help in addressing online bullying should we ask of them? A second legal challenge for schools is protecting the rights of gay and gender-bending students from harassment. As issues of sexuality, masculinity, and femininity come into play, what are the best buffers for kids negotiating these boundaries? What expectations are the courts and government placing on schools? What can educators and parents do to help vulnerable students?
Bazelon is a senior editor at Slate, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, a frequent guest on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. Before joining Slate, Bazelon was a Soros media fellow. She also worked as an editor and writer at Legal Affairs magazine and as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.
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