The Hoover Institution hosts The Facebook Oversight Board: Process, Decisions and Reactions on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, at 10:00 AM PT.

Judge McConnell, co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board, the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor at the Stanford Law School and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discussed “The Facebook Oversight Board: Process, Decisions and Reactions.”  Judge McConnell is also Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, and served as Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He is an expert in constitutional law and has argued 16 cases in the United States Supreme Court.


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