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Old Wine In New Bottles: The Constitutional Status Of Unconstitutional Speech, Mark A. Graber Mar 1995

Old Wine In New Bottles: The Constitutional Status Of Unconstitutional Speech, Mark A. Graber

Vanderbilt Law Review

This Article explores whether contemporary advocates of restrictions on bigoted expression have more in common with contemporary advocates of broad First Amendment rights or with past censors. The critical theorists who would ban some hate speech rely heavily on the equal citizenship principles that radical civil libertarians believe justify almost absolute speech rights. Past censors, however, also relied heavily on principles that libertarians in their generation thought justified almost absolute speech rights. The First Amendment, past and present censors argue, does not fully protect speech in- consistent with what they believe are basic constitutional values. This claim repudiates a basic …


New York's Son Of Sam Law: Alive And Well Today, Steven P. Vargas Jan 1995

New York's Son Of Sam Law: Alive And Well Today, Steven P. Vargas

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1995

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.