Neil Richards to visit Chicago-Kent: Winner of the 2022 Roy C. Palmer Prize on Democracy, Civil Liberties, and the Rule of Law

Neil Richards is the winner of the 2022 Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for his book, Why Privacy Matters (2022 Oxford University Press). He will visit Chicago-Kent College of Law and deliver a guest lecture in April.

Richards is Koch Distinguished Professor in Law and the director of the Cordell Institute at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. In his lecture, he'll explore what privacy is, why it's so important, and what needs to be done to strengthen privacy laws.

The Palmer Prize was established in spring 2007 by Roy C. Palmer ’62 and his wife, Susan M. Palmer, to honor a work of scholarship exploring the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American society.

The $10,000 prize is designed to encourage and reward public debate among scholars on current issues affecting the rights of individuals and the responsibilities of governments throughout the world.