Judging Free Speech First Amendment Jurisprudence of US Supreme Court Justices [Paperback]

Judging Free Speech contains nine original essays by political scientists and law professors, each providing a comprehensive, yet concise and accessible overview of the free speech jurisprudence of a United States Supreme Court Justice.Introduction: Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave (Helen J. Knowles And Steven B. Lichtman) 1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. And The 'Marketplace Of Ideas': Experience Proves To Be The 'Life Of The Law' (Frederick Lewis) 2. George Sutherland And The Business Of Expression (Samuel R. Olken) 3. Absolutism And Democracy: Hugo L. Black's Free Speech Jurisprudence (Michael Paris And Kevin J. Mcmahon) 4. 'Another's Lyric': John Marshall Harlan II, Judicial Conservatism, And Free Speech (Douglas E. Edlin) 5. Justice Civility: William J. Brennan Jr.'S Free Speech Jurisprudence (James C. Foster) 6. Potter Stewart Meets The Press (Keith J. Bybee) 7. Anthony M. Kennedy: 'Speech Is The Beginning Of Thought' (Helen J. Knowles) 8. Black Like Me: The Free Speech Jurisprudence Of Clarence Thomas (Steven B. Lichtman) 9. Stephen Breyer And The First Amendment As Legal Doctrine (Mark Tushnet) Conclusion: It's Complicated . . . (Helen J. Knowles And Steven B. Lichtman)

A concise, thoughtful and illuminating volume of essays on nine select members of the Supreme Court (past and present), highlighting each justices distinctive approach to the freedom of expression. & Judging Free Speech would make an excellent supplement to a course on the First Amendment or judicial decision making. & many scholars may find pieces in this volume useful for their own research. My judgment: Judging Free Speech is highly recommended. (Wayne Batchis, Law and Politics Book Review, lpbr.net, Vol. 26 (3), July, 2016)

Knowles (political science, SUNY Oswego) and Lichtman (political science, Shippensburg) have coedited a delightful work in which the chapter authors take a justice of the Supreme Court and analyze in detail his or her opinions and jurisprudence l“.