Campus Free Speech - A Pocket Guide

In this concise, pragmatic guide, Cass Sunstein presents a range of scenarios involving students, professors, and administrators, and demonstrates how to distinguish reasonable restrictions from impermissible infringement on free speech. It is an indispensable resource for understanding the key issues surrounding free-speech debates on campuses.

About the author

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. He is the author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide, Nudge (with Richard Thaler), Law and Leviathan (with Adrian Vermeule), How to Interpret the Constitution, On Freedom, and Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America. He is a recipient of the Holberg Prize, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for the humanities and social sciences.

Summary

In this concise, pragmatic guide, Cass Sunstein presents a range of scenarios involving students, professors, and administrators, and demonstrates how to distinguish reasonable restrictions from impermissible infringement on free speech. It is an indispensable resource for understanding the key issues surrounding free-speech debates on campuses.

Product details

• Authors: Cass R Sunstein, Cass R. Sunstein, Sunstein Cass R.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.08.2024
• EAN: 9780674298781
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29878-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, United States of America, USA, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law, Freedom of expression law, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher