Spring 2000: "Access Denied, R-Rating, V-Chip": Should Youth Access to the Internet and Mass Media be Restricted? Experts Meet the experts who answered students' questions for the Access Denied summit. Chris Hansen Chris Hansen has been affiliated with the ACLU as an attorney since 1973, when he joined the staff of the ACLU-sponsored Mental Health Law Project. Since 1984, Mr. Hansen has worked as an attorney with the national ACLU, where he holds the position of senior staff counsel. In that capacity, he was lead counsel in Reno v. ACLU, the ACLU's historic and successful challenge to federal Internet content regulations. He was also a member of the legal team for the U.S. District Court (Eastern Virginia) case, Mainstream Loudoun v. Board of Trustees, the ACLU’s successful challenge to mandatory filtering of public library computer access to the Internet. An expert in complex litigation, Mr. Hansen has acted as lead counsel in a wide variety of landmark cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, a reopened case that forced a Kansas school district to honor the Supreme Court's mandate and desegregate the public schools. Mr. Hansen received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and holds an undergraduate degree from Carleton College. Judith F. Krug Judith F. Krug has been the Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association since 1967 and Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation since 1969, and has held positions in various Chicago libraries. In addition to her professional responsibilities, Ms. Krug serves on the Board of Directors of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. She previously served on the Board of Directors of the Fund for Free Expression, the Board of Directors of the Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Bar Association’s Commission on Public Understanding About the Law, and the Advisory Council of the Illinois State Justice Commission. Ms. Krug is a noted speaker and author in the area of intellectual freedom; her articles on this subject have appeared in national library and education journals. Eric Nuzum Eric Nuzum is a writer and radio producer living in Kent, Ohio. Currently, he is the Program Director for WKSU-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate licensed to Kent State University - one of the nation’s most highly-regarded public radio stations. He has been a life-long advocate for artist rights and anti-censorship causes. As a writer his articles have appeared in Rev magazine, Delphi.com, Public Interactive, and on National Public Radio. His first book, entitled, Bound and Gagged: The History of Music Censorship in the United States will be published by HarperCollins in early 2001. Bruce A. Taylor Bruce Taylor is the President and Chief Counsel of the National Law Center for Children and Families. He is a former Prosecutor and Assistant Director of Law for the City of Cleveland, General Counsel to Citizens for Decency through Law, Inc., Assistant Attorney General of Arizona, and then Senior Trial Attorney for the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Since 1973, he has prosecuted nearly 100 state and federal obscenity jury cases, as well as trials on prostitution, RICO, child pornography, and child sexual abuse, has written over 200 appeal and amicus curiae briefs, presented over 50 appellate arguments, including Larry Flynt v. Ohio in the U.S. Supreme Court, and has represented public officials and law enforcement personnel in civil lawsuits on civil rights, zoning, nuisance abatement, injunction and forfeiture actions, criminal procedure, and federal challenges to federal, state, and municipal laws. He provides legal counsel to the Senate and House sponsors of Internet-pornography bills and filed the Congressional amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in Reno v. ACLU on the CDA and in the Third Circuit in ACLU v. Reno on COPA. >>Pilot Classrooms >>Discussion >>Experts >>Student Poll Spring 2000 Summit Home | Summit | The Issues | Legal Background | Interest Groups Lessons/Activities | Other Resources National Online Youth Summit Home