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Marley Weiss, Sonja West, and the participants in the 2023 Media Law and Policy Scholars’ Conference and the 2023 Freedom of Expression Scholars’ Conference.
19 cze 2017 · The speaker-centric perspective focuses on how freedom of expression fosters the democratic needs and interests of the speaker.
2 cze 2020 · And it was in 1976, in the Virginia State Pharmacy Board case, that for the first time a law banning commercial speech was held by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional based on the First Amendment.
11 mar 2019 · The distinctive, and in certain ways unprecedented technical, political, and cultural affordances of social media – including, in particular, the rise since the early 2000s of Facebook and Google – raise basic questions not only about the possibilities of free expression, but also about its perils.
The Supreme Court has found that speech may extend beyond the spoken and written word into the area of expressive conduct, in which actions send a symbolic message. For example, burning a flag or wearing a black arm band has received First Amendment protection.
26 sty 2021 · The book provides a critical analysis of the foundations, rationales, and ideas that underpin freedom of speech as a political idea, and as a principle of positive constitutional law. In doing so, it examines freedom of speech in a variety of national and supranational settings from an international perspective.
10 maj 2021 · The First Amendment dominates debate about freedom of speech in the United States. Yet it is not the only legal instrument that protects expressive freedom, the rights of the institutional press, or the democratic values that these rights facilitate.
