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Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025

Professor Elizabeth Sepper from the University of Texas School of Law will give this fall’s Toni Rembe Lecture on whether employers have constitutional rights of expressive association. She argues that these rights should not extend to the relationship between employers and employees, and that inviting employers to surveil employees’ off-duty conduct and speech threatens the liberty of individuals to build genuine associational relationships beyond the workplace and to live their own values free from their boss’s control.

You can read the abstract of her forthcoming paper, on the University of Texas School of Law’s website.

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Professor Elizabeth Sepper is a nationally recognized scholar of religious liberty, health law and equality. She has written extensively about conflicts over reproductive healthcare and religion. Her work also focuses on constitutional, theoretical and policy debates about the antidiscrimination obligations of public accommodations — that is, businesses, social service providers and membership organizations that are open to the public. Her recent work documents and evaluates the growth of state-religious hospitals, schools, prisons and social services — a new era of establishment of religion.

When and Where

Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025
12:30-1:20 p.m.

William H. Gates Hall, Rm. 133

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