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Drawing The Line: A First Amendment Framework For Partisan Gerrymandering In The Wake Of Rucho V. Common Cause, Kyle Keraga Jan 2020

Drawing The Line: A First Amendment Framework For Partisan Gerrymandering In The Wake Of Rucho V. Common Cause, Kyle Keraga

Maryland Law Review

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Overbey V. Mayor Of Baltimore: The Cost Of Silence And The Impact Of Restricting Speech In Police Brutality Settlements, Delaney E. Anderson Jan 2020

Overbey V. Mayor Of Baltimore: The Cost Of Silence And The Impact Of Restricting Speech In Police Brutality Settlements, Delaney E. Anderson

Maryland Law Review

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Platforms And The Fall Of The Fourth Estate: Looking Beyond The First Amendment To Protect Watchdog Journalism, Erin C. Carroll Jan 2020

Platforms And The Fall Of The Fourth Estate: Looking Beyond The First Amendment To Protect Watchdog Journalism, Erin C. Carroll

Maryland Law Review

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Sex, Lies, And Videotape: Deep Fakes And Free Speech Delusions, Mary Anne Franks, Ari Ezra Waldman Aug 2019

Sex, Lies, And Videotape: Deep Fakes And Free Speech Delusions, Mary Anne Franks, Ari Ezra Waldman

Maryland Law Review

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The Upside Of Deep Fakes, Jessica Silbey, Woodrow Hartzog Aug 2019

The Upside Of Deep Fakes, Jessica Silbey, Woodrow Hartzog

Maryland Law Review

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Drawing Trump Naked: Curbing The Right Of Publicity To Protect Public Discourse, Thomas E. Kadri Aug 2019

Drawing Trump Naked: Curbing The Right Of Publicity To Protect Public Discourse, Thomas E. Kadri

Maryland Law Review

From Donald Trump to Lindsay Lohan to Manuel Noriega, real people who are portrayed in expressive works are increasingly targeting creators of those works for allegedly violating their “right of publicity”—a state-law tort that prohibits the unauthorized use of a person’s name, likeness, and other identifying characteristics. Intuitively, we might feel confident that Mark Zuckerberg should not be able to block his portrayal in The Social Network movie, that Marilyn Monroe could not have stopped Andy Warhol from exhibiting his vibrant paintings, that O.J. Simpson could not have demanded money from FX to air the American Crime Story docudrama. But …


A Jewish And (Declining) Democratic State? Constitutional Retrogression In Israel, Nadiv Mordechay, Yaniv Roznai Nov 2017

A Jewish And (Declining) Democratic State? Constitutional Retrogression In Israel, Nadiv Mordechay, Yaniv Roznai

Maryland Law Review

This Article describes and analyzes an increasing trend of contemporary democratic hybridization and constitutional retrogression in Israel. We seek to reconstruct the Israeli case as a state of affairs where a strong leadership, coupled with rising political elites, are leading to a wide-ranging political risk to the constitutional liberal-democracy, to an erosion of its democratic institutions, and to an incremental democratic backslide.

This Article contributes to the evolving recent literature in comparative constitutional law on the constitutional implications of democratic retrogression by characterizing the Israeli case as one that might be categorized as constitutional retrogression. This, as we argue, carries …


Elonis V. United States: The Need To Uphold Individual Rights To Free Speech While Protecting Victims Of Online True Threats, Alison J. Best May 2016

Elonis V. United States: The Need To Uphold Individual Rights To Free Speech While Protecting Victims Of Online True Threats, Alison J. Best

Maryland Law Review

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Doric Columns Are Not Falling: Wedding Cakes, The Ministerial Exception, And The Public-Private Distinction, James M. Oleske Jr. Dec 2015

Doric Columns Are Not Falling: Wedding Cakes, The Ministerial Exception, And The Public-Private Distinction, James M. Oleske Jr.

Maryland Law Review

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Telescoping And Collectivizing Religious Free Exercise Rights, Henry L. Chambers Jr Dec 2015

Telescoping And Collectivizing Religious Free Exercise Rights, Henry L. Chambers Jr

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Copyright Crime And Punishment: The First Amendment's Proportionality Problem, Margot Kaminski Jan 2014

Copyright Crime And Punishment: The First Amendment's Proportionality Problem, Margot Kaminski

Maryland Law Review

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Lefemine V. Wideman: Entrenching Judicial Confusion And Beckoning A More Streamlined Analysis Of First Amendment Violations In The Anti-Abortion Protest Context, Blake Lauren Walsh Jan 2013

Lefemine V. Wideman: Entrenching Judicial Confusion And Beckoning A More Streamlined Analysis Of First Amendment Violations In The Anti-Abortion Protest Context, Blake Lauren Walsh

Maryland Law Review

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Building Picket Fences: Maryland’S Funeral Picketing Law After Snyder V. Phelps, Michael Bakhama Jan 2012

Building Picket Fences: Maryland’S Funeral Picketing Law After Snyder V. Phelps, Michael Bakhama

Maryland Law Review

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Foia And The First Amendment: Representative Democracy And The People's Elusive "Right To Know", Barry Sullivan Jan 2012

Foia And The First Amendment: Representative Democracy And The People's Elusive "Right To Know", Barry Sullivan

Maryland Law Review

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The Dueling First Amendments: Government As Funder, As Speaker, And The Establishment Clause, Carol Nackenoff Jan 2009

The Dueling First Amendments: Government As Funder, As Speaker, And The Establishment Clause, Carol Nackenoff

Maryland Law Review

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Symposium - The Maryland Constitutional Law Schmooze - Foreword: Our Paradoxical Religion Clauses, Mark A. Graber Jan 2009

Symposium - The Maryland Constitutional Law Schmooze - Foreword: Our Paradoxical Religion Clauses, Mark A. Graber

Maryland Law Review

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The Rules Against Scandal And What They Mean For The First Amendment’S Religion Clauses, Marci A. Hamilton Jan 2009

The Rules Against Scandal And What They Mean For The First Amendment’S Religion Clauses, Marci A. Hamilton

Maryland Law Review

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Atmospheric Harms In Constitutional Law, Frederick Mark Gedicks Jan 2009

Atmospheric Harms In Constitutional Law, Frederick Mark Gedicks

Maryland Law Review

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Constitutional Faith And Dynamic Stability: Thoughts On Religion, Constitutions, And Transitions To Democracy, David Gray Jan 2009

Constitutional Faith And Dynamic Stability: Thoughts On Religion, Constitutions, And Transitions To Democracy, David Gray

Maryland Law Review

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Like A Hole In The Head, Lief H. Carter Jan 2009

Like A Hole In The Head, Lief H. Carter

Maryland Law Review

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Culture, Religion, And Indigenous People, David Bogen, Leslie F. Goldstein Jan 2009

Culture, Religion, And Indigenous People, David Bogen, Leslie F. Goldstein

Maryland Law Review

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Is There A Paradox In Amending A Sacred Text?, Beau Breslin Jan 2009

Is There A Paradox In Amending A Sacred Text?, Beau Breslin

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Biblical Interpretation, Constitutional Interpretation, And Ignoring Text, Henry L. Chambers Jr. Jan 2009

Biblical Interpretation, Constitutional Interpretation, And Ignoring Text, Henry L. Chambers Jr.

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Miranda, Dickerson, And Jewish Legal Theory: The Constitutional Rule In A Comparative Analytical Framework, Samuel J. Levine Jan 2009

Miranda, Dickerson, And Jewish Legal Theory: The Constitutional Rule In A Comparative Analytical Framework, Samuel J. Levine

Maryland Law Review

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A Time To Mourn: Balancing The Right Of Free Speech Against The Right Of Privacy In Funeral Picketing, Njeri Mathis Rutledge Jan 2008

A Time To Mourn: Balancing The Right Of Free Speech Against The Right Of Privacy In Funeral Picketing, Njeri Mathis Rutledge

Maryland Law Review

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Garcetti V. Ceballos: Misconstruing Precedent To Curtail Government Employees’ First Amendment Rights, Matthew R. Schroll Jan 2008

Garcetti V. Ceballos: Misconstruing Precedent To Curtail Government Employees’ First Amendment Rights, Matthew R. Schroll

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Jefferson And Madison As Icons In Judicial History: A Study Of Religion Clause Jurisprudence, David Reiss Jan 2002

Jefferson And Madison As Icons In Judicial History: A Study Of Religion Clause Jurisprudence, David Reiss

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


May Public Universities Restrict Faculty From Receiving Or Transmitting Information Via University Computer Resources? Academic Freedom, The First Amendment, And The Internet, Damon L. Krieger Jan 2000

May Public Universities Restrict Faculty From Receiving Or Transmitting Information Via University Computer Resources? Academic Freedom, The First Amendment, And The Internet, Damon L. Krieger

Maryland Law Review

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In Defense Of The Imprecise Definition Of Commercial Speech, Nat Stern Jan 1999

In Defense Of The Imprecise Definition Of Commercial Speech, Nat Stern

Maryland Law Review

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Agostini V. Felton: Shifting The Evidentiary Burden In Establishment Clause Challenges Back To The Plaintiff, Brian Saccenti Jan 1999

Agostini V. Felton: Shifting The Evidentiary Burden In Establishment Clause Challenges Back To The Plaintiff, Brian Saccenti

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.