The Irony of Free Speech

How free is the speech of someone who cant be heard? Not very--and this, Owen Fiss suggests in this incisive book, is where the First Amendment comes in. He reframes the debate by showing how restrictions on political expenditures, hate speech, and pornography can be defended in terms of the First Amendment, not despite it.

List of contents

Introduction The Silencing Effect of Speech Art and the Activist State The Democratic Mission of the Press The Challenge Ahead Notes Acknowledgments Index

About the author

Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale University.

Summary

How free is the speech of someone who can't be heard? Not very--and this, Owen Fiss suggests in this incisive book, is where the First Amendment comes in. He reframes the debate by showing how restrictions on political expenditures, hate speech, and pornography can be defended in terms of the First Amendment, not despite it.

Product details

• Authors: Owen Fiss, Owen M. Fiss, Fiss Owen
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.1998
• EAN: 9780674466616
• ISBN: 978-0-674-46661-6
• Weight: 141 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, United States of America, USA, Jurisprudence & general issues, Human rights, civil rights, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional and administrative law: general