A cogent, objective, and in-depth exploration of the legal, political, and social complexities of the decision to ban hate speech.
This book provides the background necessary to understanding the importance of free speech on campus and offers clear prescriptions for what colleges can and can’t do when dealing with free speech controversies.
Ten years after publication of the first edition of Timothy Shiell's pathbreaking study, restrictions on faculty and student speech on college campuses continue to be hotly contested in the mainstream...
What role, if any, should companies like Facebook play in policing the exchange of thoughts, ideas, and opinions? With clarity and power, Stanley Fish explores these complex questions in The First.
In Speak Freely, Keith Whittington argues that universities must protect and encourage vigorous free speech because it goes to the heart of their mission to foster freedom of thought, ideological diversity, and tolerance.
A Leadership Guide to Free Speech Jeffrey C. Sun, George S. McClellan ... 10) Ben Shapiro (Challenges to Freedom of Speech-Shapiro, 2017c) simplified the situation among dissenters to certain conservative speech.
However, there has been little analysis of whether censorship effectively counters the feared injuries. Citing evidence from many countries, this book shows that "hate speech" are at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive.
58 James Weinstein, Hate Speech Bans, Democracy, and Political Legitimacy, 35 Const. Comment. 527 (2017). For Weinstein's earlier work in this area, see, Hate Speech, Pornography, and the Radical Attack on Free Speech Doctrine (1999).
Freedom of speech is a fundamental aspect of American democracy, and university campuses have historically been central to the free speech debate through serving as protectors of this constitutional right.
"This book presents advice and guidance based on previous court cases and the experience of administrators and campus hearing officers who have dealt with difficult First Amendment issues and lived to tell about it" -- P. 2.
" In that time, FIRE's commitment to advocating on behalf of the essential rights discussed in the pages that follow has remained unwavering; however, threats to free speech on campus have evolved sufficiently over the past six years to ...