To commemorate the 200th issue of First Amendment News, I invited women from various professions (lawyers, law professors, and a journalism professor) to draft original essays on any aspect of free speech law. Why only women? Fair question. My answer has to do with the fact, as I perceive it, that by-and-large those who receive the most attention in the First Amendment arena are men. I leave it to others to explain if and why that might be so — some of the contributors to this symposium do just that. However that may be, of this I can say with a good measure of certainty: the essays that follow are diverse, thoughtful, somtimes provocative, original, and often mind-opening. I extend my thanks to the 15 contributors for their sympsoium essays and to Kellye Testy for kindly agreeing to write the Foreword.
→ Related: 38 Women Who Argued First Amendment Free Expression Cases in the Supreme Court: 1880 -2018 (Aug. 7, 2018)
→ With this issue First Amendment News ends its long and rewarding affiliation with Concurring Opinions. I want to thank my colleagues here for their valuable and generous support. I especially want to thank Professor Dan Solove who years ago dared to invite me to be a part of his team. Happily, Dan and his colleagues have agreed to allow me to continue to contribute to Concurring Opinions.
Starting sometime in October, FAN’s new host will be the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Among other things, you can expect more news along with a variety of digital improvements. From time to time, FAN will also host or co-host live and online symposia and may even conduct a study or two. One thing will, however, remain constant: my commitment to being a fair broker of content. So stay tuned — some of the best is yet to come. — RKLC
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Foreword
Kellye Testy, “Prior Restraint: Women’s Voices and the First Amendment”
15 Contributors
Jane Bambauer, “Diagnosing Donald Trump: Professional Speech in Disorder”
Mary Anne Franks, “The Free Speech Fraternity”
Sarah C. Haan, “Facebook and the Identity Business”
Laura Handman & Lisa Zycherman, “Retaliatory RICO: A Corporate Assault on Speech”
Marjorie Heins, “On ‘Absolutism’ and ‘Frontierism’”
Margot Kaminski, “The First Amendment and Data Privacy: Between Reed and a Hard Place”
Lyrissa Lidsky, “Libel, Lies, and Conspiracy Theories”
Jasmine McNealy, “Newsworthiness, the First Amendment, and Platform Transparency”
Helen Norton, “Taking Listeners’ First Amendment Interests Seriously”
Tamara Piety, “A Constitutional Right to Lie? Again?: National Institute of Family and Life Advocates d/b/a NIFLA v. Becerra”
Ruthann Robson, “The Cyber Company Town”
Kelli Sager& Selina MacLaren, “First Amendment Rights of Access”
Sonja West, “President Trump and the Press Clause: A Cautionary Tale”