First Amendment Essay Davie Essay: A Peace Worth Disturbing 19 Dec 201916 Dec 2019 How Louisiana Forums Redefined Free Speech Americans are a fun-loving people, and a lot of the fun to be had is out in public. Americans travel by public transit to…
First Amendment Essay Carlson Essay: Media Ownership and the Marketplace of Ideas 10 Dec 201910 Dec 2019 A century ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes introduced the concept of the Marketplace of Ideas to U.S. jurisprudence. In his dissent in Abrams v. United States (1919), Holmes said, “the…
First Amendment Essay Klein Essay: “Speaking Out”: Press Freedom in Ethiopia 11 Nov 20197 May 2020 When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October of 2019, it was in part for "granting amnesty to thousands of political prisoners,” including many…
First Amendment Essay Myers Essay: Protecting Advertising and Public Relations 14 Oct 201914 Oct 2019 A Brief History of Commercial Speech Protection and the First Amendment Commercial speech has been an area of speech regulation that was said to be “plucked…out of thin air” by…
First Amendment Essay The Judicial Legacy of “Or of the Press” 1 Oct 201929 Sep 2019 The First Amendment guarantees five rights. Freedom of the press is one of them, but what is the purpose of this constitutional guarantee? Is the press, as an institution, so…
First Amendment Essay File Essay: How Journalists Make the Meaning of the First Amendment 3 Sep 201931 Aug 2019 In 1980, John Lofton published The Press as Guardian of the First Amendment to a mixed response. Reviewers were intrigued by Lofton’s central argument—that since the founding, U.S. newspaper publishers…
First Amendment Essay Gutterman Essay: Feiner and the Heckler’s Veto 6 Aug 201930 Jul 2019 Back Again (Not That It Ever Left) When police arrested Irving Feiner for his street corner soapbox speech, it upended the 24-year-old Syracuse University student’s life. The army veteran studying…
First Amendment Essay Wolgast Essay: Defying the State to Speak 30 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 William Allen White and the Kansas State Law Prohibiting Speech in Support of Organized Labor In a pique after being harassed by a group of populists on a sidewalk one…
First Amendment Essay Wagner Essay: The Milwaukee Leader 16 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 A Socialist Newspaper, the First Amendment, and the Espionage Act President Woodrow Wilson’s signature on the Espionage Act set in motion a course of events that resulted in the modern…
First Amendment Essay Voss Essay: Help Wanted 2 Jul 2019 The Legal and Journalism History to End Segregated Job Ads The battleground was the help-wanted advertisements in newspapers. For the journalists – and their supporters – it was about the…
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