The Fight for Free Speech
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The Fight for Free Speech

Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

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The Fight for Free Speech

Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

About this book

A user's guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States

Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relating to their free speech freedoms. What are libel laws, and do they need to be changed to stop the press from lying? Does Colin Kaepernick have the right to take a knee? Can Saturday Night Live be punished for parody? While citizens are grappling with these questions, they generally have nowhere to turn to learn about the extent of their First Amendment rights.

The Fight for Free Speech answers this call with an accessible, engaging user's guide to free speech. Media lawyer Ian Rosenberg distills the spectrum of free speech law down to ten critical issues. Each chapter in this book focuses on a contemporary free speech question—from student walkouts for gun safety to Samantha Bee's expletives, from Nazis marching in Charlottesville to the muting of adult film star Stormy Daniels— and then identifies, unpacks, and explains the key Supreme Court case that provides the answers. Together these fascinating stories create a practical framework for understanding where our free speech protections originated and how they can develop in the future. As people on all sides of the political spectrum are demanding their right to speak and be heard, The Fight for Free Speech is a handbook for combating authoritarianism, protecting our democracy, and bringing an understanding of free speech law to all.

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Information

Publisher
NYU Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781479825912
eBook ISBN
9781479801541
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 The Women’s March and the Marketplace of Ideas
  9. 2 Take a Knee and the Pledge of Allegiance
  10. 3 Libel, Actual Malice, and the Civil Rights Movement
  11. 4 Student Speech from the Vietnam War to the National School Walkout
  12. 5 Stormy Daniels, Prior Restraints, and the Pentagon Papers
  13. 6 Flipping Off the President and Fuck the Draft
  14. 7 Samantha Bee, Seven Dirty Words, and Indecency
  15. 8 Saturday Night Live, Hustler, and the Power of Parody
  16. 9 Nazis in Charlottesville, Funeral Protests, and Speakers We Hate
  17. 10 Social Media and the “Vast Democratic Forums of the Internet”
  18. Afterword to the Paperback Edition
  19. Notes
  20. Index
  21. About the Author