The First Amendment is ultimately based on a faith that we’re better off allowing all ideas to be expressed than [allowing] our government officials to punish some of them.” Erwin Chemerinsky almost has too many accolades and titles to name. Among them, he was the 2017 National Jurist magazine most influential person in legal education in the United States, is a preeminent constitutional law scholar, Dean of the Berkeley School of Law, and Founding Dean of the University of California Irvine. Erwin stepped up for free speech in higher education at his own school when Alan Dershowitz was prevented from speaking, inviting Professor Dershowitz to speak on behalf of the law school’s Jewish Association. Author of Yale University Press, Free Speech on Campus (co-author Howard Gillman), Erwin walks the walk.