Synopses & Reviews
Freedom of expression will, as the essays in this volume illuminate, encounter new and continuing controversies in the twenty-first century. Advances in digital technology raise pressing questions regarding freedom of speech and, with it, intellectual property and privacy rights. Cyberspace looms as a relatively uncharted frontier for free speech and copyright law, and expressive liberties may face their greatest challenge from government efforts to thwart terrorism.
Synopsis
Freedom of expression will, as the essays in this volume illuminate, encounter new and continuing controversies in the twenty-first century. Advances in digital technology raise pressing questions regarding freedom of speech and, with it, intellectual property and privacy rights. Campaign finance reform limits the formerly sacrosanct category of 'political speech', while campus speech codes have spawned debates over 'politically correct' speech. Expressive liberties may face their greatest challenge from government efforts to thwart terrorism. The twelve legal scholars and philosophers in this volume examine the history of free speech doctrine.
Synopsis
Freedom of expression will, as the essays in this volume illuminate, encounter new and continuing controversies in the twenty-first century. Advances in digital technology raise pressing questions regarding freedom of speech and, with it, intellectual property and privacy rights. As the expansion of the Internet tests, and often confounds, legal statutes and precedents established in the era of the printing press, cyberspace looms as a relatively uncharted frontier for free speech and copyright law. Campaign finance reform limits the formerly sacrosanct category of 'political speech', while campus speech codes have spawned debates over 'politically correct' speech. Expressive liberties may face their greatest challenge from government efforts to thwart terrorism.
Table of Contents
1. Equality and expression: the radical paradox Andrew Altman; 2. The politics of free speech Scott D. Gerber; 3. The academic betrayal of free speech Daniel Jacobson; 4. Free speech and offensive expression Judith Wagner DeCew; 5. Copyright, trespass, and the first amendment: an institutional perspective Lillian R. BeVier; 6. Restrictions on judicial campaign speech: silencing criticism of liberal activism Lino A. Graglia; 7. Property rights and free speech: allies or enemies? James W. Ely, Jr.; 8. Expressive association after Dale David E. Bernstein; 9. Autonomy and informational privacy, or gossip: the central meaning of the first amendment C. Edwin Baker; 10. Current proposals for media accountability in light of the first amendment Ronald D. Rotunda; 11. Free speech in the American founding and in modern liberalism Thomas G. West; 12. Democratic ideals and media realities: a puzzling free press paradox Michael Kent Curtis.