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Using non-technical, accessible language, this book analyses the laws, regulations, customs, and norms that affect public protest. It explains how the law of public protest imposes a system of 'managed dissent,' which has led to overly broad and punitive limits on public expression and collective protest.
List of contents
1. Protest, dissent, and democracy; 2. The managerial system; 3. Displacing dissent; 4. The rising costs of dissent; 5. Managing campus protest; 6. Arming public protests; 7. Protest and emergency powers; 8. Protesters' remedies; 9. Preserving public protest.
About the author
Timothy Zick is the John Marshall Professor of Government and Citizenship at William and Mary Law School. Professor Zick is the author of Speech out of Doors: Preserving First Amendment Liberties in Public Places (2008); The Cosmopolitan First Amendment: Protecting Transborder Expressive and Religious Liberties (2013); The Dynamic Free Speech Clause: Free Speech and its Relation to Other Constitutional Rights (2018); and The First Amendment in the Trump Era (2019). He is also the co-author of a First Amendment casebook, The First Amendment: Cases and Theory (2022).
Summary
Using non-technical, accessible language, this book analyses the laws, regulations, customs, and norms that affect public protest. It explains how the law of public protest imposes a system of 'managed dissent,' which has led to overly broad and punitive limits on public expression and collective protest.
Foreword
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the wide-ranging body of law that applies to public protest activity.
