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Noah Chauvin is publishing Anthony Leaker's Against Free Speech: Shadowboxing with Free Speech Principles in the South Carolina Law Review. This essay is a review of Anthony Leaker’s book "Against Free Speech." MORE
Peter Coe, Aston University, is publishing Anonymity and Pseudonymity: Free Speech's Problem Children in the Media & Arts Review. Here is the abstract. Through comparative analysis of United States, English, German and European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence, this article MORE
Matthew Hooker, Wake Forest University School of Law, is publishing Censorship, Free Speech & Facebook: Applying the First Amendment to Social Media Platforms via the Public Function Exception in volume 15 of the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts MORE
Miller, University of Chicago Law School, has published Defending Speech Crimes on the University of Chicago Legal Forum, 2020. The First Amendment is supposed to provide important protections against criminal prosecutions for speech crimes Judith P. MORE
Heidi Kitrosser, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, School of Law, has published Free Speech Aboard the Leaky Ship of State: Calibrating First Amendment Protection for Leakers of Classified Information, in volume 6 of the Journal of National Security Law & MORE
Timothy Zick, William & Mary Law School, has published Introduction to The Dynamic Free Speech Clause: Free Speech and Its Relation to Other Constitutional Rights (Oxford Univ. Press, 2018) This is a draft of the Introduction to my forthcoming book MORE
Jeremy Horder, London School of Economics, Department of Law, is publishing Online Free Speech and the Suppression of False Political Claims in the 2021 volume of the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law. MORE
Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business, is publishing Monopolizing Free Speech in the Fordham Law Review. The First Amendment prevents the government from suppressing speech, though individuals can Gregory Day, University of Georgia, C. Here is the abstract. MORE
An announcement of a new, peer-reviewed journal: Journal of Free Speech Law We are delighted to announce the founding of the Journal of Free Speech Law, a new faculty-edited law journal. MORE
Anthony Lester, Blackstone Chambers, has published Free Speech Today at 33 Polish Yearbook of International Law 129 (2013). Here is the abstract. The article is an amended version of the Marek Nowicki Memorial Lecture presented at Warsaw University in 2014 MORE
Leslie Kendrick, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Free Speech as a Special Right at 45 Philosophy and Public Affairs 87 (2017). Many theorists treat free speech as a special right. Here is the abstract. Other theorists argue MORE
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 Here is the abstract. 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
Edward Cantu, University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Lee Jussim, Rutgers University, are publishing Microaggressions, Questionable Science, and Free Speech in the Texas Review of Law & Politics. MORE
Thomas Healy, Seton Hall University School of Law, has published Anxiety and Influence: Learned Hand and the Making of a Free Speech Dissent at 50 Arizona State Law Journal 803 (2019). Here is the abstract. In this essay marking the 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. Here is the abstract. A few months ago, the Federal Circuit ruled MORE
Chen, both of the University of Denver College of Law, have published Free Speech and Democracy in the Video Age as University of Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. Justin F. Marceau and Alan K. 15-42. Here is the abstract MORE
A judge rules that a biopic about the late singer wasn't "routine investigative reporting," so the Spanish network must face a lawsuit for interfering with a nondisclosure agreement. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Music Business THR Online MORE
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 Here is the abstract. MORE
Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing Free Speech Overrides in the University of Chicago Legal Forum (2020). Here is the abstract. This paper, prepared for a University of Chicago Law School symposium on “What’s the Harm MORE
Frederick Mostert, King's College London, has published Free Speech and Internet Regulation at 14 Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 607 (August 2019). The article analyses free speech and internet regulation. MORE
Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, is publishing Multifactoral Free Speech in volume 110 of the Northwestern University Law Review (2016). This article presents a multifactoral approach to free speech analysis. Here is the abstract. Difficult cases present MORE
Babie, both of the University of Adelaide School of Law, have published Social Media, Free Speech and Religious Freedom at 20 Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion 239 (2021). Colette Langos and Paul T. MORE
Colella, Pace University, has published A Look Back at the Clear and Present Danger of Free Speech during the First World War at 265 N.Y.L.J. Frank G. MORE
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Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Free Speech on Tuesdays. Here is the abstract. The philosopher John Searle famously observed that there is “no remark without remarkableness,” by which he meant that even simple assertions presuppose 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). Here is the abstract. This article analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court’s recently 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
Stephen Matthew Feldman, University of Wyoming College of Law, has published Free-Speech Formalism Is Not Formal at 12 Drexel L. 723 (2020). Here is the abstract. Legal formalism proclaims that cases can be resolved through the logical application of MORE
Morrison, University of North Dakota School of Law, has published Conspiracy Law's Threat to Free Speech. In this article, I define the relationship between the systems of criminal conspiracy law and speech rights. Steven R. Here is the abstract. MORE
Chen, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, has published Free Speech, Rational Deliberation, and some Truths about Lies as University of Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. Alan K. MORE
Melina Bell, Washington & Lee University, has published John Stuart Mill's Harm Principle and Free Speech: Expanding the Notion of Harm at 2020 Utilitas 1. MORE
McKenna, Notre Dame Law School, has published Dilution and Free Speech in the U.S., Mark P. Reprise. Here the abstract. This Chapter address the topic of trademark dilution — the additional protection granted to famous trademarks under United States (U.S. MORE
Ashutosh Avinash Bhagwat, University of California, Davis, School of Law, and Matthew Struhar are publishing Justice Kennedy's Free Speech Jurisprudence: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in the In the almost twenty-five years that Justice Anthony M. MORE
The Southern Methodist University Law Review has published scholarship from its recent Free Speech Symposium in its current issue. Read the articles online here. A great line-up of authors! Lackland H. Bloom, Jr., The Lessons of 1919 Dale Carpenter, Born 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
Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Free Speech, Official History and Nationalist Politics: Toward a Typology of Objections to Memory Laws as U of St. Robert Kahn, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-25. MORE
The broadcaster is fighting a $30 million lawsuit for allegedly infringing the boxer's publicity rights and implying a false endorsement. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Business THR Online 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
Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law, is publishing Free Speech Challenges to Trademark Law After Matal v. Trademark laws and free speech are Lisa P. Tam in volume 56 of the Houston Law Review. Here is the abstract. MORE
Moran Yemini, Center for Cyber, Law and Policy, University of Haifa; Information Society Project, Yale Law School, is publishing The New Irony of Free Speech in volume 20 of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review (2019). Here is the 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? Here is a description of the contents from the publisher's website. Many who answer MORE
Livingstone, Yale University, has published Equal Treatment and the Free Speech Clause. The traditional Free Speech Clause burden is a law that directly impedes speech interests and that courts can remedy through invalidation. Spencer G. MORE
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MAY 1, 2021
Livingstone, Yale University, has published Equal Treatment and the Free Speech Clause. The traditional Free Speech Clause burden is a law that directly impedes speech interests and that courts can remedy through invalidation. Spencer G.
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MAY 2, 2021
Noah Chauvin is publishing Anthony Leaker's Against Free Speech: Shadowboxing with Free Speech Principles in the South Carolina Law Review. This essay is a review of Anthony Leaker’s book "Against Free Speech."
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MAY 5, 2021
Jeremy Horder, London School of Economics, Department of Law, is publishing Online Free Speech and the Suppression of False Political Claims in the 2021 volume of the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law.
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APRIL 21, 2021
Edward Cantu, University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Lee Jussim, Rutgers University, are publishing Microaggressions, Questionable Science, and Free Speech in the Texas Review of Law & Politics.
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APRIL 19, 2021
Babie, both of the University of Adelaide School of Law, have published Social Media, Free Speech and Religious Freedom at 20 Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion 239 (2021). Colette Langos and Paul T.
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JUNE 2, 2020
Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, is publishing Free Speech Overrides in the University of Chicago Legal Forum (2020). Here is the abstract. This paper, prepared for a University of Chicago Law School symposium on “What’s the Harm
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 23, 2020
Frederick Mostert, King's College London, has published Free Speech and Internet Regulation at 14 Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 607 (August 2019). The article analyses free speech and internet regulation.
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OCTOBER 4, 2019
Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business, is publishing Monopolizing Free Speech in the Fordham Law Review. The First Amendment prevents the government from suppressing speech, though individuals can Gregory Day, University of Georgia, C. Here is the abstract.
Media Law Prof Blog
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Stephen Matthew Feldman, University of Wyoming College of Law, has published Free-Speech Formalism Is Not Formal at 12 Drexel L. 723 (2020). Here is the abstract. Legal formalism proclaims that cases can be resolved through the logical application of
Media Law Prof Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
An announcement of a new, peer-reviewed journal: Journal of Free Speech Law We are delighted to announce the founding of the Journal of Free Speech Law, a new faculty-edited law journal.
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2015
Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, is publishing Multifactoral Free Speech in volume 110 of the Northwestern University Law Review (2016). This article presents a multifactoral approach to free speech analysis. Here is the abstract. Difficult cases present
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Melina Bell, Washington & Lee University, has published John Stuart Mill's Harm Principle and Free Speech: Expanding the Notion of Harm at 2020 Utilitas 1.
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MARCH 10, 2020
Chen, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, has published Free Speech, Rational Deliberation, and some Truths about Lies as University of Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. Alan K.
Media Law Prof Blog
JUNE 26, 2014
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.
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 3, 2021
Colella, Pace University, has published A Look Back at the Clear and Present Danger of Free Speech during the First World War at 265 N.Y.L.J. Frank G.
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2014
Anthony Lester, Blackstone Chambers, has published Free Speech Today at 33 Polish Yearbook of International Law 129 (2013). Here is the abstract. The article is an amended version of the Marek Nowicki Memorial Lecture presented at Warsaw University in 2014
Media Law Prof Blog
JANUARY 31, 2020
Matthew Hooker, Wake Forest University School of Law, is publishing Censorship, Free Speech & Facebook: Applying the First Amendment to Social Media Platforms via the Public Function Exception in volume 15 of the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
Media Law Prof Blog
APRIL 29, 2019
McKenna, Notre Dame Law School, has published Dilution and Free Speech in the U.S., Mark P. Reprise. Here the abstract. This Chapter address the topic of trademark dilution — the additional protection granted to famous trademarks under United States (U.S.
Media Law Prof Blog
JUNE 26, 2012
Heidi Kitrosser, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, School of Law, has published Free Speech Aboard the Leaky Ship of State: Calibrating First Amendment Protection for Leakers of Classified Information, in volume 6 of the Journal of National Security Law &
Media Law Prof Blog
AUGUST 18, 2015
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
Media Law Prof Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Free Speech on Tuesdays. Here is the abstract. The philosopher John Searle famously observed that there is “no remark without remarkableness,” by which he meant that even simple assertions presuppose
Media Law Prof Blog
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Free Speech, Official History and Nationalist Politics: Toward a Typology of Objections to Memory Laws as U of St. Robert Kahn, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-25.
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JANUARY 17, 2018
The broadcaster is fighting a $30 million lawsuit for allegedly infringing the boxer's publicity rights and implying a false endorsement. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Business THR Online
Media Law Prof Blog
JANUARY 30, 2019
Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law, is publishing Free Speech Challenges to Trademark Law After Matal v. Trademark laws and free speech are Lisa P. Tam in volume 56 of the Houston Law Review. Here is the abstract.
Media Law Prof Blog
JUNE 19, 2015
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 Here is the abstract.
Media Law Prof Blog
MAY 30, 2014
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.
Media Law Prof Blog
AUGUST 4, 2015
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). Here is the abstract. This article analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court’s recently
Media Law Prof Blog
APRIL 1, 2018
Timothy Zick, William & Mary Law School, has published Introduction to The Dynamic Free Speech Clause: Free Speech and Its Relation to Other Constitutional Rights (Oxford Univ. Press, 2018) This is a draft of the Introduction to my forthcoming book
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
AUGUST 17, 2017
A judge rules that a biopic about the late singer wasn't "routine investigative reporting," so the Spanish network must face a lawsuit for interfering with a nondisclosure agreement. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Music Business THR Online
Media Law Prof Blog
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Thomas Healy, Seton Hall University School of Law, has published Anxiety and Influence: Learned Hand and the Making of a Free Speech Dissent at 50 Arizona State Law Journal 803 (2019). Here is the abstract. In this essay marking the
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Moran Yemini, Center for Cyber, Law and Policy, University of Haifa; Information Society Project, Yale Law School, is publishing The New Irony of Free Speech in volume 20 of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review (2019). Here is the
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Leslie Kendrick, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Free Speech as a Special Right at 45 Philosophy and Public Affairs 87 (2017). Many theorists treat free speech as a special right. Here is the abstract. Other theorists argue
Media Law Prof Blog
AUGUST 24, 2015
Chen, both of the University of Denver College of Law, have published Free Speech and Democracy in the Video Age as University of Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. Justin F. Marceau and Alan K. 15-42. Here is the abstract
Media Law Prof Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Peter Coe, Aston University, is publishing Anonymity and Pseudonymity: Free Speech's Problem Children in the Media & Arts Review. Here is the abstract. Through comparative analysis of United States, English, German and European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence, this article
Media Law Prof Blog
JANUARY 27, 2015
From the Boston Globe: Steven Pinker on why free speech is a fundamental value
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NOVEMBER 15, 2011
Morrison, University of North Dakota School of Law, has published Conspiracy Law's Threat to Free Speech. In this article, I define the relationship between the systems of criminal conspiracy law and speech rights. Steven R. Here is the abstract.
Media Law Prof Blog
MAY 16, 2018
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
Media Law Prof Blog
MAY 14, 2018
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
Media Law Prof Blog
APRIL 6, 2016
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. Here is the abstract. A few months ago, the Federal Circuit ruled
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 7, 2019
The Southern Methodist University Law Review has published scholarship from its recent Free Speech Symposium in its current issue. Read the articles online here. A great line-up of authors! Lackland H. Bloom, Jr., The Lessons of 1919 Dale Carpenter, Born
Media Law Prof Blog
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
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? Here is a description of the contents from the publisher's website. Many who answer
Media Law Prof Blog
JUNE 20, 2012
Ashutosh Avinash Bhagwat, University of California, Davis, School of Law, and Matthew Struhar are publishing Justice Kennedy's Free Speech Jurisprudence: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in the In the almost twenty-five years that Justice Anthony M.
Media Law Prof Blog
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
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 Here is the abstract.
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