Smolla and Nimmer on Freedom of Speech: A Treatise on the First Amendment
- ISBN-10
- 0256147957
- ISBN-13
- 9780256147957
- Category
- Freedom of speech
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Author
- Rodney A. Smolla
Description
Professor Smolla has revised & greatly expanded the 1985 first edition of Professor Melville Nimmer's wonderfully crafted text on Free Speech. Professor Nimmer, now deceased, was a Professor of Law at UCLA from 1962 to 1985, & one of the country's foremost authorities on the First Amendment. Professor Smolla has been active in litigation on First Amendment issues & has written widely in the area. His book, Free Speech in an Open Society (1992) received the William O. Douglas Prize of the Speech Communication Association, the leading professional organization for college instructors in this field. This 1200-page text can serve as a core coursebook for a Free Speech or First Amendment course or as an exceptionally lucid supplemental book for the free speech component of a basic Constitutional Law course. It thoroughly covers all aspects of free speech, from theoretical doctrines to practical applications of those doctrines. Each of the following topics receives full-chapter treatment: Historical Background, Overview of Theory & Method, Overview of Modern Free Speech Doctrine, Incitement, Symbolic Speech, "Hate" Speech, Obscene & Pornographic Speech, Prior Restraints, Political Speech, Government-Related Speech, Tort Liability, Commercial & Proprietary Speech, selected aspects of Freedom of the Press, and Regulation of Electronic Mass Media.
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