Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) by Nadine Strossen Paperback Book

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This concise but comprehensive book engagingly summarizes both the broad themes and specific tenets of First Amendment law, and the strongest arguments for and against protecting controversial speech such as hate speech and disinformation. It explains the many speech-protective legal rules that emerged during the Civil Rights era, demonstrating how essential free speech is for other human rights.

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An engaging guide to the most important free speech rules, rationales, and debates, including the strongest arguments for and against protecting the most controversial speech, such as hate speech and disinformation. This concise but comprehensive book engagingly lays out specific answers to myriad topical questions about free speech law, and also general explanations of how and why the law distinguishes between protected andpunishable speech. Free Speech provides the essential background for understanding and contributing to our burgeoning debates about whether to protect speech with various kinds of controversial content, such as hatespeech and disinformation: the applicable legal tenets and the strongest arguments for and against them. The book focuses on modern First Amendment law, explaining the historic factors that propelled its evolution in a more speech-protective direction - in particular, the Civil Rights Movement. It highlights the many cases, involving multiple issues, in which robust speech-protective principles aided advocates of racial justice and other human rights causes. The bookalso shows how these holdings reflect universal, timeless values, which have been incorporated in many other legal systems, and have inspired countless thinkers and activists alike.Without oversimplifying the complexities of free speech law, the book's lively question-and-answer format summarizes this law in an understandable, interesting, and memorable fashion. It addresses the issues in a logical sequence, presenting colorful facts and eloquent language from landmark Supreme Court opinions. It will be illuminating to a wide range of readers, from those who know nothing about free speech law, to those who have studied it but seek a well-organized summaryof major doctrinal rules, as well as insights into their background, rationales, and interconnections.

Author Biography

Nadine Strossen is a New York Law School Professor Emerita, past national President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008), a Senior Fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) and a frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties, who has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. Her most recent book is HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship(Oxford, 2018)

Table of Contents

IntroductionChapter 1: Free Speech FundamentalsChapter 2: The Most Important Arguments for and against Free SpeechChapter 3: Free Speech Rights that the First Amendment ProtectsChapter 4: Speech Restrictions that the First Amendment PermitsChapter 5: Speech Restrictions that the First Amendment BarsChapter 6: First Amendment Rights in Specific Government InstitutionsChapter 7: Other Legal Protections for Free Speech, in addition to the First AmendmentChapter 8: Some Important Current Free Speech IssuesConclusion

Review

Books such as this will therefore have to keep being written, and this one should be welcomed accordingly. * James Wilson, The Law Society Gazette *

Details ISBN0197699650 ISBN-13 9780197699652 Format Paperback NZ Release Date 2024-01-31 UK Release Date 2024-01-31 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States ISBN-10 0197699650 Author Nadine Strossen Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Series WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW Subtitle What Everyone Needs to Know® Alternative 9780197699645 Audience General DEWEY 342.730853 Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-12-21 US Release Date 2023-12-21 Pages 280 AU Release Date 2024-04-23 We've got this

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