Add to ORKGThis essay reviews Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America by Steven H. Shiffrin (1999). Theorizing about the freedom of speech has been a central enterprise of contemporary legal scholarship. The important contributions to the debate are simply far too numerous to categorize. One ambition of this theorizing is the production of a comprehensive theory of the freedom of expression, a set of consistent normative principles that would explain and justify First Amendment doctrine. Despite an outpouring of scholarly effort, the consensus is that free speech theory has failed to realize this imperial ambition. Rather than searching for the global theory of the First Amendment, constitutional scholars are content to aim for a local theory;...
Speech, including expression more generally, is everywhere regulated if not proscribed; e.g., in the...
The twentieth century has seen the birth and development of the doctrine of the First Amendment\u27s...
In his insightful new book, Managed Speech: The Roberts Court’s First Amendment (2017), Professor Gr...
This essay reviews Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America by Steven H. Shiffrin (1999). The...
There is, and has always been, an abiding tension in first amendment theory. At times, freedom of sp...
The United States prides itself as a country that respects free speech, the right of all persons to ...
The United States prides itself as a country that respects free speech, the right of all persons to ...
Since the Warren Court\u27s expansive construction of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment,...
From the perspective of free speech theory, both of the central First Amendment values - human auton...
Contemporary disputes over the First Amendment often result in deadlock. One side stresses the param...
Everybody loves great dissents. Professors teach them, students learn from them, and journalists qu...
Arthur Landever discusses Civil Disobedience and the limits of Dissent and ways of expressing it
Both the right to dissent and the “rule of law” are celebrated and frequently invoked values. Yet wi...
In the wake of Charlottesville, the rise of the alt-right, and campus controversies, the First Amend...
The purpose of this presentation is to reintroduce the importance of the First Amendment and its ten...
Speech, including expression more generally, is everywhere regulated if not proscribed; e.g., in the...
The twentieth century has seen the birth and development of the doctrine of the First Amendment\u27s...
In his insightful new book, Managed Speech: The Roberts Court’s First Amendment (2017), Professor Gr...
This essay reviews Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America by Steven H. Shiffrin (1999). The...
There is, and has always been, an abiding tension in first amendment theory. At times, freedom of sp...
The United States prides itself as a country that respects free speech, the right of all persons to ...
The United States prides itself as a country that respects free speech, the right of all persons to ...
Since the Warren Court\u27s expansive construction of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment,...
From the perspective of free speech theory, both of the central First Amendment values - human auton...
Contemporary disputes over the First Amendment often result in deadlock. One side stresses the param...
Everybody loves great dissents. Professors teach them, students learn from them, and journalists qu...
Arthur Landever discusses Civil Disobedience and the limits of Dissent and ways of expressing it
Both the right to dissent and the “rule of law” are celebrated and frequently invoked values. Yet wi...
In the wake of Charlottesville, the rise of the alt-right, and campus controversies, the First Amend...
The purpose of this presentation is to reintroduce the importance of the First Amendment and its ten...
Speech, including expression more generally, is everywhere regulated if not proscribed; e.g., in the...
The twentieth century has seen the birth and development of the doctrine of the First Amendment\u27s...
In his insightful new book, Managed Speech: The Roberts Court’s First Amendment (2017), Professor Gr...