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July 28, 2017

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CONVERSATIONS WITH … The Intellectual Godfather of Commercial Speech Protection

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Featuring Jay B. Stephens, WLF Legal Policy Advisory Board Chairman, with Martin H. Redish, the Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, IL.

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