During a protest at the dinner for third-year law students at the home of Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Malak Afaneh, co-president of Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, stated that her speech was protected by the First Amendment while being grabbed by law school professor Catherine Fisk. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, asserted that Afaneh was not within her First Amendment rights to speak at the event. According to FIRE Campus Advocacy Rights Director Alex Morey, under the First Amendment, Chemerinsky’s 3L dinner is considered a limited public forum in which the government, or individual or group in charge of the forum, can open up the forum for speech in any way they decide. Read more at the link in bio. #dailycal #ucberkeley #berkeleylaw #freespeech #firstamendment