Synopses & Reviews
In
Must We Defend Nazis?, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic set out to liberate speech from its current straight-jacket.
Over the past hundred years, almost all of American law has matured from the mechanical jurisprudence approach--which held that cases could be solved on the basis of legal rules and logic alone--to that of legal realism--which maintains that legal reasoning must also take into account social policy, common sense, and experience. But in the area of free speech, the authors argue, such archaic formulas as the prohibition against content regulation, the maxim that the cure for bad speech is more speech, and the speech/act distinction continue to reign, creating a system which fails to take account of the harms speech can cause to disempowered, marginalized people.
Focusing on the issues of hate-speech and pornography, this volume examines the efforts of reformers to oblige society and law to take account of such harms. It contends that the values of free expression and equal dignity stand in reciprocal relation. Speech in any sort of meaningful sense requires equal dignity, equal access, and equal respect on the parts of all of the speakers in a dialogue; free speech, in other words, presupposes equality. The authors argue for a system of free speech which takes into account nuance, context-sensitivity, and competing values such as human dignity and equal protection of the law.
Review
"A definitive account of tennis a splayed from the Middle Ages to the present... will sate the curiosity of the most avid tennis enthusiast." -Publishers Weekly,
Review
"Well Researched... [Gillmeister] keeps a light tone even when vilifying minute details like the physical layout of Henry V's tennis court." -Library Journal,
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"Extraordinary"-The Economist,
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" . . . the book is exemplary, and the scholarship particularly of the first five chapters sets a high standard for the history of any sport." -American Studies International,
Synopsis
The first comprehensive history of tennis, Henry Gillmeister's
Tennis may also be considered the first truly scholarly history of any individual sport.
Supported by a startling wealth of linguistic and documentary research, Gillmeister charts the global evolution of tennis from its origins in the early Middle Ages to the appearance of the modern game in the twentieth century. Along the way, he debunks several firmly established myths about the history of the game, including those surrounding the invention of the Davis Cup. Rare photographs and never before published medieval and renaissance drawings generously adorn the text, and a treasure trove of bibliographical information provides its coda.
A delight for the sports fan and the scholar alike, Tennis will prove the athorative text on tennis for years to come.
About the Author
Richard Delgado and
Jean Stefancic are Professors of Law at Seattle University and have collaborated on four previous books, including
The Latino Condition, 2d edition (NYU Press, 2010),
The Derrick Bell Reader (NYU Press, 2005
), How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds, and
Understanding Words That Wound.
Jean Stefancic, research professor of law at Seattle University, is the author of many articles and books on civil rights, law reform, social change, including No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed Americas Social Agenda.