Join a curious exploration into the First Amendment's struggle with sexual expression. Discover how evolving law navigates obscenity, online content, and technology's new frontiers.
What happens when a state decides that paid adult movie performers are actually engaged in prostitution? What happens when states restrict drag performances? And, of course, the critical Texas case of 2025 is explored—one that asks whether age verification systems for access to online pornography can be enforced, or whether they are subject to heightened strict scrutiny.
See how sexual content and state sex restrictions test the courts and put the First Amendment on trial. This fun program traces the history of the First Amendment as courts have struggled with sex law cases, all the way from the famed Supreme Court “Movie Nights,” where they gathered to watch and assess the legality of adult movies, to modern internet technology making pornography available on everyone’s cell phone 24/7/365.
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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
