Smolla and Nimmer on freedom of speech : treatise on the first amendment / Rodney A. Smolla
Imprint
New York, NY : Matthew Bender, 1994
Edition
Student ed
Descript
1 v. (various pagings) ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Historical background -- An Overview of free speech theory and method -- An overview of modern free speech doctrine -- Incitement and the "clear and present danger" tradition -- Symbolic speech and expressive conduct -- Symbolic speech and expressive conduct -- Racist, sexist, and other "hate speech" -- Obscene and pornographic speech -- Prior restraints -- olitical speech and the political process -- Governmetn-related speech -- Tort liability and the first amendment -- Commercial and proppietary speech -- Freedom of the press: editorial independence, news gathering, and access to information -- regulation of electronic mass media