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Should Congress (Or, For That Matter, A New Federal Authority) Regulate Social Media?, Russell L. Weaver
Should Congress (Or, For That Matter, A New Federal Authority) Regulate Social Media?, Russell L. Weaver
Georgia Law Review
There has been considerable controversy regarding the ills of social media platforms. In addition to disinformation, those platforms can contain obscenity, child pornography, and even terroristic speech. This Article examines whether Congress should directly regulate social media content, or whether it should create a new social media regulatory authority.
Crisis Of Conscience In Post-Roe America, Elizabeth Sepper
Crisis Of Conscience In Post-Roe America, Elizabeth Sepper
The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues
This essay proceeds in four parts. Summarizing my previous writing, Part II explains that since Roe, the law has systematically favored refusing individuals and institutions. This asymmetry was unjustified, because “[c]onscience equally may compel a doctor or nurse to deliver a controversial treatment to a patient in need.” After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the asymmetry may deepen. In restrictive states, Part III contends, the crisis of conscience for willing providers will increase, even as rights to refusal expand. Part IV identifies several possible complications for the legal framework governing conscience in medicine. It suggests that as …
Free Speech Censorship In The Philippines: The Push To Decriminalize Libel, Carter Cordura
Free Speech Censorship In The Philippines: The Push To Decriminalize Libel, Carter Cordura
San Diego International Law Journal
Philippine criminal libel law is unjustly being used to suppress and censor the media and press; libel should be decriminalized and redefined to uphold the ideals of due process and freedom of expression enumerated in the Philippine Constitution.
This Comment takes a deep dive into Philippine libel law and argues for its decriminalization and redefining from an international perspective.
Public Accommodations And The Right To Refrain From Expressing Oneself, Mark Strasser
Public Accommodations And The Right To Refrain From Expressing Oneself, Mark Strasser
Cleveland State Law Review
The United States Supreme Court has been unable to articulate a coherent position when addressing the right of individuals to refrain from expressing themselves. The Court has applied various tests inconsistently—emphasizing principles in some cases, ignoring them in subsequent cases, and then emphasizing them again in later cases as if those principles had always been applied. The Court’s approach is incoherent, offering little guidance to lower courts except to suggest that public accommodations laws may soon be found inconsistent with First Amendment guarantees.
The Antidote Of Free Speech: Censorship During The Pandemic, Christopher Keleher
The Antidote Of Free Speech: Censorship During The Pandemic, Christopher Keleher
Catholic University Law Review
Free speech in America stands at a precipice. The nation must decide if the First Amendment protects controversial, unconventional, and unpopular speech, or only that which is mainstream, fashionable, and government-approved. This debate is one of many legal battles brought to the fore during Covid-19. But the fallout of the free speech question will transcend Covid-19.
During the pandemic, the federal government took unprecedented steps to pressure private entities to push messages it approved and squelch those it did not. The Supreme Court will soon grapple with the issue of censorship during the pandemic. This article examines this litigation, along …
Tort Liability For Physical Harm To Police Arising From Protest: Common-Law Principles For A Politicized World, Ellen M. Bublick, Jane R. Bambauer
Tort Liability For Physical Harm To Police Arising From Protest: Common-Law Principles For A Politicized World, Ellen M. Bublick, Jane R. Bambauer
UF Law Faculty Publications
When police officers bring tort suits for physical harms suffered during protest, courts must navigate two critically important sets of values—on the one hand, protesters’ rights to free speech and assembly, and on the other, the value of officers’ lives, health, and rights of redress. This year courts, including the United States Supreme Court, must decide who, if anyone, can be held accountable for severe physical harms suffered by police called upon to respond to protest. Two highly visible cases well illustrate the trend. In one, United States Capitol Police officers were injured on January 6, 2021, during organized attempts …
A Democracy Story: Reframing A Free Speech Landmark, Thomas Healy
A Democracy Story: Reframing A Free Speech Landmark, Thomas Healy
Michigan Law Review
A review of Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan. By Samantha Barbas.
“We Do No Such Thing”: 303 Creative V. Elenis And The Future Of First Amendment Challenges To Public Accommodations Laws, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In 303 Creative v. Elenis, the Supreme Court ruled that a business had a right to refuse to design a wedding website for a same-sex couple. But properly understood, the decision’s parameters are narrow, and the decision should have minimal effect on public accommodations laws.
The Violence Of Free Speech And Press Metaphors, Erin C. Carroll
The Violence Of Free Speech And Press Metaphors, Erin C. Carroll
Washington and Lee Law Review
Today, our free speech marketplace is often overwhelming, confusing, and even dangerous. Threats, misdirection, and lies abound. Online firestorms lead to offline violence. This Article argues that the way we conceptualize free speech and the free press are partly to blame: our metaphors are hurting us.
The primary metaphor courts have used for a century to describe free speech—the marketplace of ideas—has been linked to violence since its inception. Originating in a case about espionage and revolution, in a dissent written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, a thrice-injured Civil War veteran, the marketplace has been described as a space where competition …
Ai-Ip? Copyright In An Age Of Internet Propaganda With Artificial Intelligence, Sonya Saepoff
Ai-Ip? Copyright In An Age Of Internet Propaganda With Artificial Intelligence, Sonya Saepoff
Cybaris®
No abstract provided.
The Implications Of Section 230 For Black Communities, Spencer A. Overton, Catherine Powell
The Implications Of Section 230 For Black Communities, Spencer A. Overton, Catherine Powell
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act generally immunizes online platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, and Uber from liability for third-party user content (e.g., posts, comments, videos) and for moderation of that content. This article addresses an important issue overlooked by both defenders and critics of Section 230: the implications of the law and proposed reforms for Black communities. By relieving tech platforms of most legal liability for third-party content, Section 230 helps facilitate Black social activism, entrepreneurship, and artistic creativity. Further, Section 230 also relieves platforms of most legal liability for content moderation, which boosts platforms’ freedom to …
Is John Stuart Mill's On Liberty Obsolete?, Vincent A. Blasi
Is John Stuart Mill's On Liberty Obsolete?, Vincent A. Blasi
Faculty Scholarship
In On Liberty, published in 1859, John Stuart Mill argues for the “absolute” protection of the “liberty of thought and discussion.” Ever the empiricist, he maintains that such uncompromised freedom, not for all communication or self-expression but for the subset of those activities that qualifies as thought and discussion, would generate the best overall consequences for societies such as Great Britain and the United States. The advent of digital technology has altered how thought and discussion is generated, distributed, and received in ways that might problematize some of the empirical assumptions upon which Mill's argument in On Liberty is …
Courting Censorship, Philip A. Hamburger
Courting Censorship, Philip A. Hamburger
Faculty Scholarship
Has Supreme Court doctrine invited censorship? Not deliberately, of course. Still, it must be asked whether current doctrine has courted censorship — in the same way one might speak of it courting disaster.
The Court has repeatedly declared its devotion to the freedom of speech, so the suggestion that its doctrines have failed to block censorship may seem surprising. The Court’s precedents, however, have left room for government suppression, even to the point of seeming to legitimize it.
This Article is especially critical of the state action doctrine best known from Blum v. Yaretsky. That doctrine mistakenly elevates coercion …
Protecting Free Speech In Social Media: A Pathway To Self-Determination In International Law, Sydney Marie Harley
Protecting Free Speech In Social Media: A Pathway To Self-Determination In International Law, Sydney Marie Harley
Emory International Law Review Recent Developments
With the growth of Internet and social media usage, state regulatory action to surveil and censor citizens is running rampant. As the principle of self-determination stands, minority populations are typically bearing the brunt of these attacks, receiving little protection under domestic and international law. Self-determination within international law must be restructured into a definitive pathway that includes protecting the freedom of speech to encourage discourse and tolerance between the State and its minority populations. This article proposes a solution that could fill the gap in international law formed by insufficient domestic rule in States that neglect to protect these populations …
This Comment Is Gay: How Banning Lgbtq-Themed Books Violates First Amendment Rights, Michael Karam
This Comment Is Gay: How Banning Lgbtq-Themed Books Violates First Amendment Rights, Michael Karam
Upper Level Writing Requirement Research Papers
No abstract provided.
Becoming Steve Bright, Robert L. Tsai
Becoming Steve Bright, Robert L. Tsai
Faculty Scholarship
This is a "Director's Cut" version of material that appears in condensed form in Robert L. Tsai, "Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer's Pursuit of Equal Justice for All" (Norton 2024). This essay to be published in Kentucky Law Journal was originally Chapter One. Drawing on archival documents and interviews, this essay delves into Stephen Bright's childhood growing up in Kentucky first in segregated Danville and later in Lexington once he emerges as a social activist and student body president. Special attention is paid to the Vietnam era protests that engulfed the University of Kentucky in the wake of the Kent …
The War On Higher Education, Athena Mutua, Jonathan Feingold
The War On Higher Education, Athena Mutua, Jonathan Feingold
Faculty Scholarship
Academic freedom is under assault in the United States.1 Like the authoritarian populism rising across the globe, domestic attacks on individual professors and academic institutions buttress a broader and multifaceted campaign to undermine multiracial democracy and the institutions that sustain and safeguard it.2 The individuals and entities driving this antidemocratic movement have also targeted the electoral process; public education; the right to bodily autonomy; the civil rights and liberties of minoritized and marginalized communities; and freedom of speech and expression (increasingly marshaled against pro-Palestinian advocacy).3 Their openly stated goal is to delegitimize, defund, and “lay siege to” …
Discriminatory Censorship Laws, Jonathan Feingold, Joshua Weishart
Discriminatory Censorship Laws, Jonathan Feingold, Joshua Weishart
Faculty Scholarship
The summer of 2020 ignited global protests for racial justice. Across the United States, millions marched with a modest plea: that America reckon with its racism. For K-12 schools, this moment pushed local communities and district leaders to create more inclusive classrooms and curricula. Yet before the summer had ended, America's antiracist turn provoked a backlash campaign that has proven far more impactful and enduring.
This campaign has featured the rise and spread of "discriminatory censorship laws"-a term we apply to government action designed to demean inclusionary values and to deny students access to critical knowledge, inquiry, and thinking. As …
Content Moderation Regulation As Legal Role-Scripting, Sari Mazzurco
Content Moderation Regulation As Legal Role-Scripting, Sari Mazzurco
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Lawmakers and scholars concerned with content moderation regulation typically appeal to "analogies" to justify or undermine different forms of regulation. The logic goes: law should afford individuals due process rights against speech platforms because speech platforms are "like" speech governors as a matter of objective reality. Other common analogies include common carriers, publishers, distributors, shopping malls, and bookstores. Commentators attempt to invoke social roles to understand what the content moderation relationship is, what behaviors are "right" and "wrong" within it, and how law should police behavioral deviations. But they do so without relying on foundational sociology theory that explains what …
Counterman V. Colorado: True Threats, Speech Harms, And Missed Opportunities, R. George Wright
Counterman V. Colorado: True Threats, Speech Harms, And Missed Opportunities, R. George Wright
Indiana Law Journal
Some Supreme Court cases amount, at their best, to missed opportunities. The Supreme Court’s recent case Counterman v. Colorado resolved, quite dubiously, one particular issue of mens rea. In the course of doing so, however, the Court ignored a variety of clearly presented issues of even greater significance.
The Counterman case involved a state court criminal conviction for issuing a true threat of violence, or more simply, a true threat. True threats, as defined and limited by the Court, comprise a narrow, traditionally constitutionally unprotected category of speech. Nevertheless, the majority in Counterman unnecessarily and unadvisedly extended a substantial measure …
Public Accommodations Laws, Free Speech Challenges, And Limiting Principles In The Wake Of 303 Creative, Michael L. Smith
Public Accommodations Laws, Free Speech Challenges, And Limiting Principles In The Wake Of 303 Creative, Michael L. Smith
Faculty Articles
In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Act's prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation violated the First Amendment rights of Lorie Smith, a website designer who refused to make wedding websites for same-sex couples. This Article argues that the Court's ruling rested on a vision of state control over speech that was divorced from the law before it. Using this framing of the law to conjure up inapplicable hypothetical scenarios of state-mandated expression, the Court found in Smith's favor. And yet, in responding to the dissent's concerns that the …
Constitutional Crimes, Michael L. Smith
Constitutional Crimes, Michael L. Smith
Faculty Articles
Studies of criminal laws tend to focus on statutory, regulatory, and common law offenses. Discussions of constitutional law often revolve around abstract, concise statements, particularly those in, or which mirror, the Federal Constitution. In the interest of exploring new territory in both fields, this Article introduces and analyzes a family of crimes that has gone unanalyzed until now: criminal laws that appear in the text of the federal and state constitutions. As it turns out, there are a host of criminal laws contained in the federal and state constitutions, ranging from widespread crimes against treason, bribery, criminal contempt, and corrupt …
Aba Standard 303(C) And Divisive Concepts Legislation And Policies: Challenges And Opportunities, Sherley Cruz, Becky L. Jacobs, Karen L. Tokarz, Kendall Kerew, Andrew King-Ries, Carwina Weng
Aba Standard 303(C) And Divisive Concepts Legislation And Policies: Challenges And Opportunities, Sherley Cruz, Becky L. Jacobs, Karen L. Tokarz, Kendall Kerew, Andrew King-Ries, Carwina Weng
Scholarly Works
This article by six clinicians discusses the challenges and opportunities of new ABA Standard 303 (c), including the implications of and interactions between Standard 303(c) and “divisive concepts” laws and other threats to representation, academic freedom, and free speech in legal education. The article also highlights the intersection of Standard 303(c) and Standard 303(b)(3), which addresses professional identity formation; discusses opportunities to adapt current curriculum and teaching and create new curricular responses to meet the new accreditation standards and interpretations; and explores ways to resist increasing limitations and find a supportive academic community to sustain hope and resilience.
What Twenty-First-Century Free Speech Law Means For Securities Regulation, Helen Norton
What Twenty-First-Century Free Speech Law Means For Securities Regulation, Helen Norton
Notre Dame Law Review
Securities law has long regulated securities-related speech—and until recently, it did so with little, if any, First Amendment controversy. Yet the antiregulatory turn in the Supreme Court’s twenty-first-century Free Speech Clause doctrine has inspired corporate speakers’ increasingly successful efforts to resist regulation in a variety of settings, settings that now include securities law. This doctrinal turn empowers courts, if they so choose, to dismantle the securities regulation framework in place since the Great Depression. At stake are not only recent governmental proposals to require companies to disclose accurate information about their vulnerabilities to climate change and other emerging risks, but …
Cancelling Dr. Seuss, Cathay Y.N. Smith
Cancelling Dr. Seuss, Cathay Y.N. Smith
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced in March 2021 that it would no longer license or publish six of its children’s books because those books portrayed people in racist or culturally stereotypical ways. Since then, the public has learned through news reports and social media that other publishers have similarly reviewed and altered their catalogues of classic children’s works, including withdrawing them from the public, editing them to remove problematic content, or adding disclaimers to warn the public about racially insensitive or outdated content. The public reaction to Dr. Seuss’s decision and these other actions has been largely divided. Some criticized these …
For Freedom Or Full Of It? State Attempts To Silence Social Media, Grace Slicklen
For Freedom Or Full Of It? State Attempts To Silence Social Media, Grace Slicklen
University of Miami Law Review
Freedom of speech is, unsurprisingly, foundational to the “land of the free.” However, the “land of the free” has undergone some changes since the First Amendment’s ratification. Unprecedented technological evolution has ushered in a digital forum in which the volume, speed, and reach of words transcend the Framers’ visions of the First Amendment’s aims. Social media platforms have become central spaces for public discourse, where opportunities to create—and repress—speech are endless. From enabling individuals to freely express their views, to allowing state actors to limit open exchanges, it is about time that the Supreme Court tackles this complex issue of …
Press Freedom Under Threat In Europe: Slapps And Democracy, Maya Oleary-Cyr
Press Freedom Under Threat In Europe: Slapps And Democracy, Maya Oleary-Cyr
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
This paper critically examines the legal systems of European countries and their relationship to press freedom, particularly the vexatious legal threats used by government officials and corporations to silence journalists. These legal threats are known as SLAPPs (strategic lawsuits against public participation) and their use has increased exponentially in the last decade. Although the issue is global, this research analyzes the issue through the lens of Greece, Italy, and Hungary. As member states, each one of these countries has an obligation to uphold the democratic standards put forth by the EU. Journalists are a vital aspect of the democratic process …
Chilling Speech In The Name Of 'Woke': A Critique Of The Stop W.O.K.E. Act, Mia Guy, Kelsey Moore
Chilling Speech In The Name Of 'Woke': A Critique Of The Stop W.O.K.E. Act, Mia Guy, Kelsey Moore
The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine
No abstract provided.
Disrupting The Narrative: Diving Deeper Into Section 230 Political Discourse, Koustubh “K.J.” Bagchi, Elizabeth Banker, Ife Ogunleye
Disrupting The Narrative: Diving Deeper Into Section 230 Political Discourse, Koustubh “K.J.” Bagchi, Elizabeth Banker, Ife Ogunleye
Pepperdine Law Review
Online spaces have undoubtedly played a significant role in facilitating discourse and the exchange of information. With this increased discourse, however, digital platforms have also seen a rise in harmful or problematic content shared online––including health misinformation, hate speech, and child sex abuse material, among others. Many commentators have put the blame for this trend on Section 230, arguing that Section 230 has enabled the spread of harmful content and suggesting that Section 230 ought to be amended or replaced. This Essay, by contrast, argues that the current narrative about Section 230 gets it wrong. In reality, Section 230 has …
Comment On Freedom Of Expression In American Legal Education, Robert Post
Comment On Freedom Of Expression In American Legal Education, Robert Post
Hofstra Law Review
The author argues that framing the tension in American law schools as a freedom of expression issue is unhelpful and inaccurate.It suggest that the core issue lies in the pedagogical question of how best to achieve the educational mission of law schools. It also mentions that the principles of free speech, which are essential for democratic self-governance. The author emphasizes the importance of empathy, and creative educational interventions in navigating the challenges faced by law schools.