Floyd Abrams, a noted lawyer and award-winning legal scholar specializing in First Amendment issues, examines the degree to which American law protects free speech more often, more intensely, and more controversially than is the case ...
In the first work of its kind, this new and exciting two-volume reference comprehensively examines all the freedoms in the First Amendment, including free speech, press, assembly, petition, and religion....
The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech
After all, strong liberals like Brennan and Marshall dissented in Smith. Moreover, the decision has been widely criticized. As discussed in Chapter 9, shortly after the decision, Congress unanimously passed the Religious Freedom ...
This rediscovery of First Amendment rights offers both an engaging constitutional history and insight into contemporary political dialogue and society.
This extraordinary freedom results not from America’s culture of tolerance, but from fourteen words in the constitution: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment.InFreedom for the Thought That We Hate, two-time Pulitzer Prize ...
The book includes * An explanation of the origins of the First Amendment * A concise, chronological history of 50 legal cases, including many landmark decisions, involving the First Amendment in public schools * Answers to frequently asked ...
Addressing a host of hot-button issues, Horwitz argues that rigidly doctrinal interpretation renders First Amendment law inept in the face of messy, real-world situations.
Frederick F. Schauer, Causation Theory and the Causes of Sexual Violence, 1987 Am. Bar Found. Res. J. 737, 765 (emphasis in original) (footnotes omitted). 40. Catharine A. MacKinnon, Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech, 20 Harv. Civ.
Shows that while the Supreme Court enforces some First Amendment rights vigorously, it often fails to protect ordinary citizens' expressive freedoms.