Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates [Hardcover]

This book provides a readable and comprehensive overview of the history, theory, law, and current debates over freedom of speech.Free Speech is the perfect volume for students who need an overview of First Amendment theory and law, general readers who would like a deeper understanding of free speech and current debates about it, and scholars who seek a brief but comprehensive summary of the major issues in the field.Free Speech is the perfect volume for students who need an overview of First Amendment theory and law, general readers who would like a deeper understanding of free speech and current debates about it, and scholars who seek a brief but comprehensive summary of the major issues in the field.Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? What has the Court gotten right and wrong? Why are current debates over free expression often so divisive? How can we do better? In this succinct but comprehensive and scholarly book, authors Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan tackle these pressing questions. Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates traces the development and evolution of the free speech doctrine in the Supreme Court and explores how the Court - with varying levels of success - has applied that doctrinal framework to hard cases and current controversies, such as those involving hate speech, speech on the internet, speech on campus, and campaign finance regulation. This is the perfect volume for anyone - student, general reader, or scholar - looking for an accessible overview of this critical topic.Introduction; Part I. Core Values: 1. Instrumental value arguments for free speech; 2. Intrinsic value arguments for free speech; 3. Free expression and due process values; 4. The everyday first amendment; Part II. History: 5. The First amendment prior to 1919; 6. The first amendment from 1919-1963; 7. The first amendment from 1964present: Free speech broadened and compartmentalized; 8.l#µ