Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know®

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Nadine Strossen (Professor of Law Emerita, Professor of Law Emerita, New York Law School)

Free Speech

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Nadine Strossen (Professor of Law Emerita, Professor of Law Emerita, New York Law School)

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Oxford University Press Inc
12 December 2023

Political control & freedoms; Freedom of expression law

Series: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

An engaging guide to the most important free speech rules, rationales, and debates, including the strongest arguments for and against protecting the most controversial speech, such as hate speech and disinformation.

This concise but comprehensive book engagingly lays out specific answers to myriad topical questions about free speech law, and also general explanations of how and why the law distinguishes between protected and punishable speech.

Free Speech provides the essential background for understanding and contributing to our burgeoning debates about whether to protect speech with various kinds of controversial content, such as hate speech and disinformation:

the applicable legal tenets and the strongest arguments for and against them.

The book focuses on modern First Amendment law, explaining the historic factors that propelled its evolution in a more speech-protective direction - in particular, the Civil Rights Movement.

It highlights the many cases, involving multiple issues, in which robust speech-protective principles aided advocates of racial justice and other human rights causes.

The book also shows how these holdings reflect universal, timeless values, which have been incorporated in many other legal systems, and have inspired countless thinkers and activists alike.

Without oversimplifying the complexities of free speech law, the book's lively question-and-answer format

summarizes this law in an understandable, interesting, and memorable fashion.

It addresses the issues in a logical sequence, presenting colorful facts and eloquent language from landmark Supreme Court opinions.

It will be illuminating to a wide range of readers, from those who know nothing about free speech law, to those who have studied it but seek a well-organized summary of

major doctrinal rules, as well as insights into their background, rationales, and interconnections.

By: Nadine Strossen (Professor of Law Emerita Professor of Law Emerita New York Law School)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 140mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 422g
ISBN: 9780197699645
ISBN 10: 0197699642
Series: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 12 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1: Free Speech Fundamentals Chapter 2: The Most Important Arguments for and against Free Speech Chapter 3: Free Speech Rights that the First Amendment Protects Chapter 4: Speech Restrictions that the First Amendment Permits Chapter 5: Speech Restrictions that the First Amendment Bars Chapter 6: First Amendment Rights in Specific Government Institutions Chapter 7: Other Legal Protections for Free Speech, in addition to the First Amendment Chapter 8: Some Important Current Free Speech Issues Conclusion

Nadine Strossen is a New York Law School Professor Emerita, past national President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008), a Senior Fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) and a frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties, who has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. Her most recent book is HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (Oxford, 2018)