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Terrorist Speech And The Future Of Free Expression, Laura K. Donohue
Terrorist Speech And The Future Of Free Expression, Laura K. Donohue
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The crucial point is this: Both liberal, democratic states, and non-state terrorist organizations need free speech. Prominent scholars have written elegantly and at length on the role of this liberty for the former. While their arguments surface at times in the text, the author does not dwell on them. Instead, she wrestles with the question: Under what circumstances are the interests of the state secured and the opportunism of terrorist organizations avoided? Here, the experiences of the United States and United Kingdom prove instructive. On both sides of the Atlantic, where the state acts as sovereign, efforts to restrict persuasive …
The Very Idea Of A First Amendment Right Against Compelled Subsidization, Gregory Klass
The Very Idea Of A First Amendment Right Against Compelled Subsidization, Gregory Klass
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
At present, it is difficult to discern what rules govern compelled subsidization and where the constitutional limits lie. The root cause of the current confusion is the Supreme Court's failure to provide a coherent account of the First Amendment harm of compelled subsidization. Part I of this Article describes the present state of the doctrine. It identifies a number of practical problems, especially the imprecisions in and conflicts between the Court's holdings that leave it unclear how lower courts should decide novel cases. Part II is a critical discussion of the two most common arguments for a First Amendment right …