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Volo Foundation Lecture: Science, Free Speech, And Public Choice, Bret Stephens Jan 2024

Volo Foundation Lecture: Science, Free Speech, And Public Choice, Bret Stephens

FIU Law Review

In an era where science, free speech, and public choice clash, the historical unity between these pillars, as envisioned by America's founding fathers, is obscured. Examining Thomas Jefferson's reverence for Bacon, Locke, and Newton, reveals a past where reason and freedom intertwined. However, contemporary challenges, epitomized by the pandemic response, illustrate a divergence. Amidst censorship and expert dominance, the vital role of public scrutiny emerges. Acknowledging the fallibility of experts and embracing free speech as essential for reasoned discourse becomes imperative. To restore the balance, humility from scientific institutions, a renewed appreciation for free speech, and public courage are necessary …


Fiduciary Duty As A Shield For Social Media User Privacy And Platform Policing Of Political Misinformation And Disinformation, Michael M. Epstein Jan 2023

Fiduciary Duty As A Shield For Social Media User Privacy And Platform Policing Of Political Misinformation And Disinformation, Michael M. Epstein

FIU Law Review

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The “Liberty Of Silence” Challenging State Legislation That Strips Municipalities Of Authority To Remove Confederate Monuments, Roger C. Hartley Jan 2022

The “Liberty Of Silence” Challenging State Legislation That Strips Municipalities Of Authority To Remove Confederate Monuments, Roger C. Hartley

FIU Law Review

There are roughly 700 Confederate monuments still standing in courthouse lawns, parks, and downtown squares in virtually every city, town, and village throughout the “Old South.” Most of these Confederate monuments are located in states that have enacted legislation that bans the removal of Confederate monuments. Such legislative bans are in effect in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Legislation that bans removal of Confederate monuments from public spaces poses a racial justice issue for millions of residents in these states because it forces political majorities in Southern communities (many constituting majority-minority communities) to host a …


Attorney-Fee Shifting Is The Solution To Slapping Meritless Claims Out Of Federal Court, Gleisy Sopena Jan 2022

Attorney-Fee Shifting Is The Solution To Slapping Meritless Claims Out Of Federal Court, Gleisy Sopena

FIU Law Review

Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (“SLAPPs”) are meritless claims brought against individuals or corporations to silence them for exercising protected speech under the First Amendment. In response to the chilling effects of these SLAPPsuits, State legislatures have enacted anti-SLAPP statutes to quickly dismiss these meritless claims and protect the targets of these suits. These anti-SLAPP statutes have two prominent components: a special motion to dismiss and an attorney fee-shifting provision that is dependent on prevailing on the special motion set forth in the statute. Federal courts sitting in diversity are divided over whether the special motion standards set forth in …


Fish On First, Larry Alexander Jan 2021

Fish On First, Larry Alexander

FIU Law Review

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Dehors The Record: A Correction Of A Final Jeopardy Question, Thomas E. Baker Jan 2021

Dehors The Record: A Correction Of A Final Jeopardy Question, Thomas E. Baker

FIU Law Review

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Is Free Speech An Academic Value? Is Academic Freedom A Constitutional Value?, Daniel Gordon Jan 2021

Is Free Speech An Academic Value? Is Academic Freedom A Constitutional Value?, Daniel Gordon

FIU Law Review

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Stanley Fish, The First, And The Life Of The Law, Samuel A. Terilli, Jr. Jan 2021

Stanley Fish, The First, And The Life Of The Law, Samuel A. Terilli, Jr.

FIU Law Review

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Professor Fish—Why Are You Still Picking On Liberalism?, Micah Schwartzman Jan 2021

Professor Fish—Why Are You Still Picking On Liberalism?, Micah Schwartzman

FIU Law Review

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Transparency And The First, Mark Fenster Jan 2021

Transparency And The First, Mark Fenster

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Sport And Expression, Sport As Expression, Howard M. Wasserman Jan 2021

Sport And Expression, Sport As Expression, Howard M. Wasserman

FIU Law Review

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Institutionalized Algorithmic Enforcement—The Pros And Cons Of The Eu Approach To Ugc Platform Liability, Martin Senftleben Jan 2020

Institutionalized Algorithmic Enforcement—The Pros And Cons Of The Eu Approach To Ugc Platform Liability, Martin Senftleben

FIU Law Review

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Cracking The Code: Computer Code As Pure Speech And Its First Amendment Implications On The 3d Printed Firearms Controversy, Brian E. Heckmann Jan 2020

Cracking The Code: Computer Code As Pure Speech And Its First Amendment Implications On The 3d Printed Firearms Controversy, Brian E. Heckmann

FIU Law Review

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Will The Players Union Take An L Or Take A Knee?: The First Amendment Legal Issues Surrounding The Nfl National Anthem Controversy, Audriana Rodriguez Jan 2020

Will The Players Union Take An L Or Take A Knee?: The First Amendment Legal Issues Surrounding The Nfl National Anthem Controversy, Audriana Rodriguez

FIU Law Review

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“Good Orthodoxy” And The Legacy Of Barnette, Erica Goldberg Jan 2019

“Good Orthodoxy” And The Legacy Of Barnette, Erica Goldberg

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Not Such A Fixed Star After All: West Virginia State Board Of Education V. Barnette, And The Changing Meaning Of The First Amendment Right Not To Speak, Genevieve Lakier Jan 2019

Not Such A Fixed Star After All: West Virginia State Board Of Education V. Barnette, And The Changing Meaning Of The First Amendment Right Not To Speak, Genevieve Lakier

FIU Law Review

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Justice Jackson In The Jehovah’S Witnesses’ Cases, John Q. Barrett Jan 2019

Justice Jackson In The Jehovah’S Witnesses’ Cases, John Q. Barrett

FIU Law Review

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Deconstitutionalizing Dewey, Aaron Saiger Jan 2019

Deconstitutionalizing Dewey, Aaron Saiger

FIU Law Review

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Thoughts On Hayden C. Covington And The Paucity Of Litigation Scholarship, Ronald K.L. Collins Jan 2019

Thoughts On Hayden C. Covington And The Paucity Of Litigation Scholarship, Ronald K.L. Collins

FIU Law Review

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A Close Reading Of Barnette, In Honor Of Vincent Blasi, Paul Horwitz Jan 2019

A Close Reading Of Barnette, In Honor Of Vincent Blasi, Paul Horwitz

FIU Law Review

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Barnette And Masterpiece Cakeshop: Some Unanswered Questions, Abner S. Greene Jan 2019

Barnette And Masterpiece Cakeshop: Some Unanswered Questions, Abner S. Greene

FIU Law Review

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“Fixed Star” Or Twin Star?: The Ambiguity Of Barnette, Steven D. Smith Jan 2019

“Fixed Star” Or Twin Star?: The Ambiguity Of Barnette, Steven D. Smith

FIU Law Review

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Police Misconduct, Video Recording, And Procedural Barriers To Rights Enforcement, Howard M. Wasserman Jan 2017

Police Misconduct, Video Recording, And Procedural Barriers To Rights Enforcement, Howard M. Wasserman

Faculty Publications

The story of police reform and of "policing the police" has become the story of video and video evidence, and "record everything to know the truth" has become the singular mantra. Video, both police-created and citizen-created, has become the singular tool for ensuring police accountability, reforming law enforcement, and enforcing the rights of victims of police misconduct. This Article explores procedural problems surrounding the use of video recording and video evidence to counter police misconduct, hold individual officers and governments accountable, and reform departmental policies, regulations, and practices. It considers four issues: 1) the mistaken belief that video can "speak …


Holmes And Brennan, Howard Wasserman Jan 2016

Holmes And Brennan, Howard Wasserman

Faculty Publications

This article jointly examines two legal biographies of two landmark First Amendment decisions and the justices who produced them. In The Great Dissent (Henry Holt and Co. 2013), Thomas Healy explores Oliver Wendell Holmes’s dissent in Abrams v. United States (1919), which arguably laid the cornerstone for modern American free speech jurisprudence. In The Progeny (ABA 2014), Stephen Wermiel and Lee Levine explore William J. Brennan’s majority opinion in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) and the development and evolution of its progeny over Brennan’s remaining twenty-five years on the Court. The article then explores three ideas: 1) the connections …


Law, Religion, And Politics: Understanding The Separation Of Church And State, Richard Garnett Nov 2015

Law, Religion, And Politics: Understanding The Separation Of Church And State, Richard Garnett

Faculty Workshops

Professor Richard Garnett, of University of Notre Dame Law School, presented on the topic Law, Religion, and Politics: Understanding the Separation of Church and State. This workshop was presented as part of the Hesburgh Lecture Series through the Alumni & Friends of University of Notre Dame and was co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Alumni Club of Miami. This workshop examined how to understand the Constitution's "separation of church and state" and what it requires of religious believers and institutions.


Dusty Order: Law Enforcement And Participant Cooperation At Burning Man, Manuel A. Gomez Jan 2014

Dusty Order: Law Enforcement And Participant Cooperation At Burning Man, Manuel A. Gomez

Faculty Books

Media depictions of Burning Man focus on the picturesque and eccentric appearance of the weeklong affair. The event is sometimes misportrayed as a lawless environment where participants are encouraged to engage in rowdy behavior. Most carnivalesque events offer an escape from reality and are generally thought to enable unruly conduct. Despite stereotypes, Burning Man is a different beast. Not only is the crime rate in Black Rock City lower than any other city of comparable size, but Burners show a high level of cooperative and law abiding behavior that helps maintain the social order without depending on official means of …


A Jurisdictional Perspective On New York Times V. Sullivan, Howard M. Wasserman Jan 2013

A Jurisdictional Perspective On New York Times V. Sullivan, Howard M. Wasserman

Faculty Publications

New York Times v. Sullivan, arguably the Supreme Court's most significant First Amendment decision, marks its fiftieth anniversary next year. Often overlooked in discussions of the case's impact on the freedom of speech and freedom of the press is that it arose from a complex puzzle of constitutional, statutory, and judge-made jurisdictional and procedural rules. These kept the case in hostile Alabama state courts for four years and a half-million-dollar judgment before the Times and its civil rights leader co-defendants finally could avail themselves of the structural protections of federal court and Article III judges. The case's outcome and …


Bartnicki As Lochner: Some Thoughts On First Amendment Lochnerism, Howard M. Wasserman Jan 2006

Bartnicki As Lochner: Some Thoughts On First Amendment Lochnerism, Howard M. Wasserman

Faculty Publications

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Cheers, Profanity, And Free Speech, Howard M. Wasserman Jan 2005

Cheers, Profanity, And Free Speech, Howard M. Wasserman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Controlling Corporate Speech: Is Regulation Fair Disclosure Unconstitutional, Antony Page, Katy H. Yang Jan 2005

Controlling Corporate Speech: Is Regulation Fair Disclosure Unconstitutional, Antony Page, Katy H. Yang

Faculty Publications

We analyze whether Regulation Fair Disclosure, SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt's crowning achievement, violates the First Amendment. Regulation FD requires that a company that discloses material non-public information to certain private audiences must also make that information public, subject to certain safe-harbors. The Regulation solely targets speech, acting either to compel it to a public audience or as a burden on private disclosure. Part I examines the reach of Regulation FD, the enforcement actions to date, and currently available empirical data. Part II provides an introduction to the interaction of the First Amendment and SEC regulations affecting speech. Part III broadens …