Contributor
Amar, Vikram.
Imprint:Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2009.
Description304 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:PART I. HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS: Commentaries on the laws of England / William Blackstone -- Free speech in war time / Zechariah Chafee Jr. -- Righting the balance: an inquiry into the foundations and limits of freedom of expression / Steven J. Heyman -- Seditious libel and the lost guarantee of freedom of expression / William T. Mayton -- The origins of the press clause / David A. Anderson -- PART II. THEORETICAL PARADIGMS: Must speech be special? / Frederick Schauer -- Free speech now / Cass R. Sunstein -- Scope of the first amendment: freedom of speech / C. Edwin Baker -- The first amendment is an absolute / Alexander Meiklejohn -- Equality as a central principle in the first amendment / Kenneth L. Karst -- PART III. SELECTED DOCTRINAL BATTLEGROUNDS: Content regulation and the first amendment / Geoffrey R. Stone -- Rules of engagement for cultural wars: regulating conduct, unprotected speech, and protected expression in anti-abortion protests / Alan E. Brownstein -- The concept of the public forum / Harry Kalven Jr. -- The case of the missing amendments: R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul / Akhil Reed Amar -- Public response to racist speech: considering the victim's story / Mari J. Matsuda -- Compelled subsidization of speech: Johanns v. Livestock Marketing Association / Robert Post -- Political money and freedom of speech / Kathleen M. Sullivan -- From Watergate to Ken Starr: Potter Stewart's "Or of the press" a quarter century later / Vikram David Amar -- APPENDIXES: Constitution of the United States of America -- The Amendments to the Constitution.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.