Heidi Kitrosser, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, is publishing Politics, Knowledge, and Government Speech in Elgar Companion to Free Expression (eds. Alan Chen & Ashutash Bhagwat, forthcoming 2025). Here is the abstract.Pursuant to the body of law known as government
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Lakier on Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning
Genevieve Lakier, University of Chicago Law School, is publishing Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning in the University of Chicago Law Review. Here is the abstract.First Amendment law tends to focus on the exercise of formal government…
Grochowski on Algorithmic Speech Harm
Mateusz Grochowski, Tulane University School of Law; Yale Law School Information Sosciety Project; Yale Law School Center for Private Law, has published Algorithmic Speech Harm. Here is the abstract.This paper examines the potential application of product liability doctrine to…
Tuchtfeld and Murphy on Global Gatekeepers: Online Oversight and Internet Content Moderation
Erik Tuchtfeld, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and Christopher Murphy, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law, have published Global Gatekeepers: Online Oversight and Internet Content Moderation as Max Planck Lawcast,…
Barbas on How the Civil Rights Movement Rewrote Freedom of the Press
Samantha Barbas, University of Iowa College of Law, is publishing How the Civil Rights Movement Rewrote Freedom of the Press in volume 45 of Humanities (Fall 2024). Here is the abstract.In 1960, a civil rights organization placed a fundraising ad…
Newly Published: Adam Tomkins: On the Law of Speaking Freely: Our Republican Constitution (Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing, 2025)
Newly published:Adam Tomkins, University of Glasgow, has published On the Law of Speaking Freely: Our Republican Constitution (Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing, 2025).Here is a description of the book’s contents.This book tackles the most pressing problems of contemporary free speech law by…
Newly Published: Paul Wragg: Free Speech Theory: A Radical Restatement (Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025)
Newly published:Paul Wragg: Free Speech Theory: A Radical Restatement (Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing, 2025). Here is a description of the book’s contents.What does free speech mean? In this book, Paul Wragg argues for a universal formulation of free speech drawn exclusively…
Barbas on The Enduring Significance of New York Times v. Sullivan
Samantha Barbas, University of Iowa College of Law, has published The Enduring Significance of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan at the Blog-The Future of Press Freedom: Scholars Series, March 2024 and as U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No.…
Inazu on Incitement, Enthusiasm, and the Dangers of Negligent Protest
John D. Inazu, Washington University (St. Louis) School of Law, is publishing Incitement, Enthusiasm, and the Dangers of Negligent Protest in the Journal of Free Speech Law (forthcoming 2025). Here is the abstract.This Article explores the murky line between protected…
Smith on Whether Copyright Should Protect Racist Works: A Book Review of Ned Snow’s Intellectual Property and Immorality: Against Protecting Harmful Creations of the Mind
Cathay Smith, Chicago-Kent, College of Law, has published Should Copyright Protect Racist Works? at 11 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 169 (2025). Here is the abstract.This Essay reviews Ned Snow’s provocative book, Intellectual Property and Immorality: Against Protecting Harmful…