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    The Free Speech Century by Stone, Geoffrey R.; Bollinger, Lee C.;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 13 December 2018

    • ISBN 9780190841379
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages376 pages
    • Size 162x244x25 mm
    • Weight 658 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    In The Free Speech Century, two of America's leading First Amendment scholars, Geoffrey Stone and Lee Bollinger, have gathered a group of the nation's leading legal scholars (Cass Sunstein, Lawrence Lessig, Laurence Tribe, Kathleen Sullivan, Catherine McKinnon, and others) to evaluate the development of free speech doctrine since Schenk and assess where it might be headed in our post-Snowden era.

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    The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is most famous for saying that 'shouting fire in a crowded theater' is not protected by the First Amendment. The case itself upheld an espionage conviction, but it also created a much stricter standard for governmental suppression of speech. Over time, the standard Holmes devised made freedom of speech in America a reality rather than merely an ideal.

    In The Free Speech Century, two of American's leading First Amendment scholars, Geoffrey Stone and Lee Bollinger, have gathered a group of the nation's leading legal scholars (Cass Sunstein, Lawrence Lessig, Laurence Tribe, Kathleen Sullivan, Catherine McKinnon, and others) to evaluate the development of free speech doctrine since Schenk and assess where it might be headed in our post-Snowden era. Since 1919, First Amendment jurisprudence in America has been a signal development in the history of constitutional democracies--remarkable for its level of doctrinal refinement, remarkable for its lateness in coming (in relation to the adoption of the First Amendment), and remarkable for the scope of protection for free expression it has afforded since the 1960s. Since 1919, the degree of judicial engagement with these fundamental rights has grown exponentially. We now have an elaborate set of free speech laws and norms, but as Stone and Bollinger stress, the context is always shifting. New societal threats like terrorism, heightened political sensitivities, and new technologies of communication continually reshape our understanding of what sort of speech should be allowed.

    Publishing on the one hundredth anniversary of the decision that established free speech as we have come to understand it today, The Free Speech Century will serve as essential overview for anyone interested in how our understanding of the First Amendment transformed over time and why it continues to change to this day.

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    Table of Contents:

    Dialogue: Lee C. Bollinger & Geoffrey R. Stone
    Part I: The Nature of First Amendment Jurisprudence
    Rights Skepticism and Majority Rule at the Birth of the Modern First Amendment
    Vincent A. Blasi
    Every Possible Use of Language?
    Frederick Schauer
    Rethinking the Myth of the Modern First Amendment
    Laura Weinrib
    The Discursive Benefits of Structure: Federalism and the First Amendment
    Heather K. Gerken
    Part II: Major Critiques and Controversial Areas of First Amendment Jurisprudence
    Citizens United: Predictions and Reality
    Floyd Abrams
    On the Legitimate Aim of Congressional Regulation of Political Speech: An Originalist View
    Lawrence Lessig
    The Classic First Amendment Tradition Under Stress: Freedom of Speech and the University
    Robert C. Post
    Keeping Secrets
    David A. Strauss
    The First Amendment: An Equality Reading
    Catharine A. MacKinnon
    Does the Clear and Present Danger Test Survive Cost-Benefit Analysis?
    Cass R. Sunstein
    Part III: The International Implications of the First Amendment
    Reflections on the Firstness of the First Amendment
    Albie Sachs
    Freedom of Expression Abroad: The State of Play
    Tom Ginsburg
    Hate Speech at Home and Abroad
    Sarah H. Cleveland
    Part IV: New Technologies and the First Amendment of the Future
    The Unintentional Press: How Technology Companies Fail as Publishers
    Emily Bell
    Defining the Boundaries of Free Speech on Social Media
    Monika Bickert
    Is the First Amendment Obsolete?
    Tim Wu
    Epilogue: Lee C. Bollinger & Geoffrey R. Stone

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