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Free Speech: It's Great For Hate, Kenneth Lasson
Free Speech: It's Great For Hate, Kenneth Lasson
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The Tolerant Society: A Response To Critics, Lee C. Bollinger
The Tolerant Society: A Response To Critics, Lee C. Bollinger
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In writing The Tolerant Society I was, and yet remain, interested in the treatment of speech behavior in this country, a treatment notably more liberal than in other Western democracies. Liberality, however, is not its only surprising or distinguishing hallmark; so too is how the world is characterized under the free speech concept.
For some time, even after I began teaching in the first amendment area, the scope and nature of protection afforded speech seemed to me obviously right. But the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me quite extraordinary. Existing free speech theory provided less …
The Regulation Of Speech Incident To The Sale Or Promotion Of Goods And Services: A Multifactor Approach, Charles G. Geyh
The Regulation Of Speech Incident To The Sale Or Promotion Of Goods And Services: A Multifactor Approach, Charles G. Geyh
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O'Er The Land Of The Free: Flag Burning As Speech, Kent Greenawalt
O'Er The Land Of The Free: Flag Burning As Speech, Kent Greenawalt
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I am honored to lecture at this school, which has a number of friends, and a much larger circle of scholars whose work I admire. I am honored to lecture in the memory of Melville Nimmer, one of the country's leading thinkers on freedom of speech as well as its foremost expert on copyright. I met Professor Nimmer only once, at a lunch with Vince Blasi. My recollection of the lunch is distinct. Gently and in the most friendly way, but with irrefutable logic, they showed me that a position I had held for more than a decade about immigration …
Insults And Epithets: Are They Protected Speech?, Kent Greenawalt
Insults And Epithets: Are They Protected Speech?, Kent Greenawalt
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It is a privilege to offer a lecture in this series named for Edward J. Bloustein. Not many lecture series honor sitting university presidents who deliver the first lecture in the series; but President Bloustein is the very rare president whose long tenure in office has been accompanied by continuing academic productivity. That achievement is remarkable.
When I tentatively chose this topic a year ago, I knew it involved the application of philosophical insights to serious practical questions, the kind of work that President Bloustein has done so well. I also knew that the search for those aspects of human …