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"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer is a personal and scholarly examination of the violent confrontations in Charlottesville and the University of Virginia campus in the summer of 2017, focusing on the clash between free speech and protection of civil rights and human dignity"--
List of contents
1. A Call from the Task Force
2. The Charleston Massacre
3. Becoming Richard Spencer
4. Reverend Edwards
5. The Charlottesville Monuments
6.
Blut und Boden
7. Mr. Jefferson's University
8. Kessler v. Bellamy
9. The Monuments Debate
10. Competing Conceptions of Free Speech
11. May Days
12. Cue the Klan-Stage Right
13. The Rise of the Marketplace
14. Cue the Counterprotesters-Stage Left
15. A
Rolling Stone Gathers No Facts
16. The Marketplace Doubles Down
17. The Day of the Clan
18. When Speech Advances Civil Rights
19. Duke and the Desciples
20. The Russian Connection
21. A Call to Conscience
22. Preparations
23. The Day to the Cross
24. The Idea of the University
25. Heckler's Veto
26. Channels of Communication
27. Rednecks and Saint Paul
28. The Lawn and the Rotunda
29. Bloodshed
30. Aftermath
About the author
Rodney A. Smolla is Dean and Professor of Law at the Delaware Law School of Widener University and is the author of numerous books, including
The Constitution Goes to College,
Deliberate Intent, and
Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt. He is a nationally known scholar and writer and has presented oral argument in state and federal courts across the country.
