Judging free speech : First Amendment jurisprudence of US Supreme Court justices

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Where to find it

Davis Library (6th floor)

Call Number
KF9345 .J83 2015
Status
Available

Law Library — 2nd Floor Collection (2nd floor)

Call Number
KF9345 .J83 2015
Status
Available

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Summary

Judging Free Speech contains nine original essays by political scientists and law professors, each providing a comprehensive, yet concise and accessible overview of the free speech jurisprudence of a United States Supreme Court Justice.

Contents

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and the "marketplace of ideas" : experience proves to be the "life of the law" / Frederick Lewis -- George Sutherland and the business of expression / Samuel R. Olken -- Absolutism and democracy : Hugo L. Black's free speech jurisprudence / Michael Paris and Kevin J. McMahon -- Another's lyric : John Marshall Harlan II, judicial conservatism, and free speech / Douglas E. Edlin -- Justice civility : William J. Brennan Jr.'s free speech jurisprudence / James C. Foster -- Potter Stewart meets the press / Keith J. Bybee -- Anthony M. Kennedy : a speech is the beginning of thought / Helen J. Knowles -- Black like me : the free speech jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas / Steven B. Lichtman -- Stephen Breyer and the First Amendment as legal doctrine / Mark Tushnet.

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