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The Value Of Dissent, Lawrence B. Solum
The Value Of Dissent, Lawrence B. Solum
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This essay reviews Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America by Steven H. Shiffrin (1999).
Theorizing about the freedom of speech has been a central enterprise of contemporary legal scholarship. The important contributions to the debate are simply far too numerous to categorize. One ambition of this theorizing is the production of a comprehensive theory of the freedom of expression, a set of consistent normative principles that would explain and justify First Amendment doctrine. Despite an outpouring of scholarly effort, the consensus is that free speech theory has failed to realize this imperial ambition. Rather than searching for the global …