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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Stetson University College of Law, is publishing Campaign Finance, Free Speech, and Boycotts in volume 41 of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy (2018). I gave a speech at Columbia Law School MORE
Brian Leiter, University of Chicago, has published The Case Against Free Speech. Free societies employ a variety of institutions — including courts and schools — in which speech is heavily regulated on the basis of its Here is the abstract. MORE
The University of California's National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement invites applications for its Fellows Program. The successful applicant will be established in a field that gives him or her occasion to address the issues of free speech MORE
Nigel Warburton, who hosts the podcast Philosophy Bites, has launched the podcast Free Speech Bites, devoted to investigating free speech issues. Follow Free Speech Bites on Twitter at @FreeSpeechBites. MORE
Ned Snow, University of South Carolina, is publishing Free Speech & Disparaging Trademarks in volume 57 of the Boston College Law Review (2016). Speech law has silenced trademark. MORE
Sarah Joseph, Monash University Faculty of Law, has published A Re-Examination of Free Speech. Recent controversies over free speech in numerous liberal democracies (eg over "no-platforming", s18C of the Racial Discrimination Act (Cth) in Australia) have MORE
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Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University (Chicago) School of Law, is publishing Balancing Free Speech in volume 96 of the Boston University Law Review (2015). This article develops a theory for balancing free speech against other express and MORE
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Balkin, Yale University Law School, is publishing Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society: Big Data, Private Governance, and New School Speech Regulation in the UC Davis Law Review (2018). Jack M. MORE
Erica Rachel Goldberg, Ohio Northern Law School, has published Competing Free Speech Values in an Age of Protest. Almost every First Amendment case can be framed as implicating free speech values on both sides of the MORE
Coenen, University of Georgia Law School, is publishing Free Speech and the Law of Evidence in the Duke Law Journal (2018). Dan T. Here is the abstract. To what extent does the First Amendment limit the ability of prosecutors to MORE
Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University (Chicago) School of Law, is publishing The Categorical Free Speech Doctrine and Contextualization in volume 65 of the Emory Law Journal (2015). MORE
Alexander, UALR-Bowen School of Law, has published A Penny for Your Thoughts: Free Speech and Paying Fines with Coins. Peter C. Here is the abstract. In October, 2016, the city of Springfield, Illinois encroached on the First Amendment rights of MORE
Kenneth Lasson, University of Baltimore School of Law, is publishing The Decline of Free Speech on the Postmodern Campus: The Troubling Evolution of the Heckler's Veto in the Quinnipiac Law Review. MORE
Smith, University of Texas, Austin, is publishing The Free Speech Vernacular: Conceptual Confusions in the Way We Speak About Speech in volume 22 of the Texas Review of Law & Politics (2017). Tara A. MORE
Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law, has published A Free Speech Right to Trademark Protection? Lisa P. at 106 Trademark Reporter 797 (2016). Here is the abstract. This Article explores whether the right to freedom of expression requires MORE
Anita Bernstein, Brooklyn Law School, is publishing Abuse and Harassment Diminish Free Speech in volume 35 of Pace Law Review (2014). Here is the abstract. A familiar dichotomy in the legal academy juxtaposes freedom against a contrasting value like security MORE
by Jay Marshall Wolman Last week, I wrote about a potential implication from In re: Tam, based upon the hypothetical from a dissenting judge about a business calling itself “Spics Not Welcome” There is a significant tension in the law between freedom of speech, which includes the right to offend, and anti-discrimination laws. MORE
Toni M. Massaro, University of Arizona College of Law and Helen L. Norton, University of Colorado School of Law, are publishing Siri-ously? in volume 110 of the Northwestern University Law Review (2015). Here is the abstract. Computers with communicative artificial MORE
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Heidi Kitrosser, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, School of Law, has published Free Speech, Higher Education, and the PC Narrative at 101 Minnesota L. MORE
Rocky) Rhodes IV, has published Speech, Subsidies, and Traditions: AID v. In a victory for free speech and individual liberty, Agency Charles W. AOSI and the First Amendment in the 2013 Cato Supreme Court Review 363. Here is the abstract. MORE
Andrei Marmor, Cornell University Law School, has published Two Rights of Free Speech at 31 Ratio Juris 139 (2018). Here is the abstract. My main argument in this paper is that the right to freedom of expression is not a MORE
Coenen, University of Georgia Law School, is publishing Free Speech and Generally Applicable Laws: A New Doctrinal Synthesis in the Iowa Law Review. A longstanding mystery of constitutional law concerns how the Free Speech Dan T. MORE
Sam Lebovic, Assistant Professor of History, George Mason University, has published Free Speech and Unfree News (Harvard University Press, 2016). Does America have a free press? MORE
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