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Informationen zum Autor Ronald K. L. Collins is the Harold S. Shefelman Scholar at the University of Washington Law School. Collins was a scholar at the Washington, DC, office of the First Amendment Center, where he wrote and lectured on freedom of expression, and where he is still a senior fellow. His journalistic writings on the First Amendment have appeared in Columbia Journalism Review, the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other publications. He is the book editor of SCOTUSblog. In addition to the books that he has co-authored with David Skover, Collins is the editor of Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Free Speech Reader (2010) and co-author with Sam Chaltain of We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free (2011). His latest book is Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams and the First Amendment (2013). Klappentext On Dissent attempts to offer a conceptual yardstick that develops clarity about the phenomenon we call 'dissent'. Zusammenfassung America values dissent. It tolerates! encourages and protects it. But what is this thing we value? There is a need to develop some clarity about the phenomenon! and On Dissent attempts to offer a conceptual yardstick that offers a measure of its meaning. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. From judicial dissent to peaceful protest; 2. From civil to uncivil disobedience; 3. The vagaries of violence; 4. Dissent, inc.; 5. Dissent and law's parameters.
