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Rights Bring Responsibility: Clear Constitutional Protections May Be Only The Beginning Of The Discussion, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2010

Rights Bring Responsibility: Clear Constitutional Protections May Be Only The Beginning Of The Discussion, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


A Criminal Justice System That Works, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2010

A Criminal Justice System That Works, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Don't Expect Kagan To Change Court Dynamic, Alan E. Garfield Jun 2010

Don't Expect Kagan To Change Court Dynamic, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Stevens Applied Common Sense, Alan E. Garfield May 2010

Stevens Applied Common Sense, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Conservative College Club Should Be Open To Gays, Alan E. Garfield Apr 2010

Conservative College Club Should Be Open To Gays, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Elevating Civic Discourse, Alan E. Garfield Mar 2010

Elevating Civic Discourse, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Congress' Power Is Properly Vested, Alan E. Garfield Feb 2010

Congress' Power Is Properly Vested, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Court's Campaign-Financing Decision Endangers Democracy, Alan E. Garfield Jan 2010

Court's Campaign-Financing Decision Endangers Democracy, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Calibrating Copyright Statutory Damages To Promote Speech, Alan Garfield Dec 2009

Calibrating Copyright Statutory Damages To Promote Speech, Alan Garfield

Alan E Garfield

Copyright and the First Amendment exist in tension. The Supreme Court acknowledges this tension but says that copyright law resolves it with two built-in free speech safeguards: (1) by protecting only the expression of ideas and not the ideas themselves (the idea/expression dichotomy); and (2) by allowing the use of expression under certain circumstances (the fair use doctrine). The problem is that these doctrines are notoriously vague, so users often cannot know ex ante whether their uses will be immune from liability. This unpredictably might be tolerable if users could be confident that, if they were subject to liability, any …


Separation Of Santa And State Is Smart, Fair, Alan E. Garfield Dec 2009

Separation Of Santa And State Is Smart, Fair, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Do Kids Belong In Prison? The Answer Will Say A Lot About What Type Of Society We Are, Alan E. Garfield Nov 2009

Do Kids Belong In Prison? The Answer Will Say A Lot About What Type Of Society We Are, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Animal Cruelty Vs. Freedom Of Speech, Alan E. Garfield Oct 2009

Animal Cruelty Vs. Freedom Of Speech, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Using Activism Appropriately, Alan E. Garfield Oct 2009

Using Activism Appropriately, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Local News Reporting, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2009

The Future Of Local News Reporting, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Should Race Matter When Rectifying Past Errors?, Alan E. Garfield Jul 2009

Should Race Matter When Rectifying Past Errors?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


The Reality Behind Supreme Court Picks, Alan E. Garfield Jun 2009

The Reality Behind Supreme Court Picks, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Foul Language And Free Speech, Alan E. Garfield May 2009

Foul Language And Free Speech, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Finding Shared Values In A Diverse Society: Lessons From The Intelligent Design Controversy, Alan E. Garfield Dec 2007

Finding Shared Values In A Diverse Society: Lessons From The Intelligent Design Controversy, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

One of the nation’s more profound and volatile ideological divides is between fundamentalist religious adherents and secular members of society. This divide has been particularly salient in recent years as issues challenging traditional religious morality – abortion, gay marriage, and stem-cell research – have been exploited as wedge issues for political gain. In this Article, I join the efforts of other scholars to find a way to bridge the gap between religious and secular Americans. By focusing on one particularly contentious front in the religious-secular wars – the teaching of intelligent design – I am able to identify a value …


Hate The Vile Campaign Ads? Blame The Supreme Court, Alan E. Garfield Nov 2006

Hate The Vile Campaign Ads? Blame The Supreme Court, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Bartnicki V. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001), Alan Garfield Dec 2005

Bartnicki V. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001), Alan Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Judge Judges On How They Use Their Power, Alan E. Garfield Nov 2005

Judge Judges On How They Use Their Power, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Protecting Children From Speech, Alan E. Garfield Dec 2004

Protecting Children From Speech, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

Public concern about minor access to inappropriate speech (violent, sexual, vice advertising) has led to an onslaught of regulatory responses in recent years. Courts have wrestled with the constitutionality of these regulations but their decisions have provided little clarity as to what legislators may or may not do. In this Article, I guide legislators and judges through the thicket of child-protection censorship. I cut through the mass of precedent, empirical studies, and scholarship to distill the child-protection/free speech conflict into a series of comprehensible questions. By identifying the key questions underlying the conflict, I draw attention to the core constitutional …


A Positive Rights Interpretation Of The Establishment Clause, Alan E. Garfield Dec 2002

A Positive Rights Interpretation Of The Establishment Clause, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


The Mischief Of Cohen V. Cowles Media Co., Alan E. Garfield Dec 2000

The Mischief Of Cohen V. Cowles Media Co., Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

For a short, sloppily reasoned 5-4 decision that textbook editors have largely consigned to note status, Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. has had a remarkably insidious influence on First Amendment law. The problem is not so much the decision’s holding. The Supreme Court’s conclusion that newspapers could be liable for breaching a promise of anonymity to a source might actually further speech interests. The problem instead is in Cohen’s reasoning. It is the way in which the Supreme Court so cavalierly dismissed the argument that the First Amendment precluded punishing media defendants for the publication of truthful information. The Court …