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FAN 172.1 (First Amendment News) Spielberg’s “The Post”— More Fiction Than Fact
James Goodale “The Post, which opens tonight, is a good movie but bad history. It exaggerates the role of The Washington Post in the success of the publication of the Pentagon Papers and the subsequent...
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FAN 173.2 (First Amendment News) First Amendment Clinic Coming to Vanderbilt...
Vanderbilt University Law School seeks applicants for a full-time clinical faculty position. The successful applicant will design and direct a First Amendment Clinic focused on speech, press, and...
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New Book — Manheim & Watts, “The Limits of Presidential Power: A Citizen’s...
A comprehensive and accurate description of the powers of the President of the United States. The book is intended primarily to benefit non-lawyers in understanding the sources and limits of the...
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FAN 174 (First Amendment News) Special Issue on Legal History — New article...
According to the most famous words of the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.” But what did the founders understand those words to mean? A remarkable...
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FAN 174.1 (First Amendment News) Text of Senator Jeff Flake’s Speech on Truth...
Text of remarks of Senator Jeff Flake of speech presented to the Senate on January 17, 2018. → C-Span video here (remarks begin at 23:01) Mr. President, near the beginning of the document that made us...
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FAN 174.2 (First Amendment News) Floyd Abrams Institute: Call for Abstracts...
Call for Abstracts & Participants: Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference The Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression invites applications to participate in the sixth annual Freedom of...
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FAN 175 (First Amendment News) Seattle University Law School to host...
Be sure to have Alexa, or Echo, or Seri, or your Google Mini save the date for an important upcoming conference on artificial intelligence. On Saturday, February 17, 2018, from 9 am to 5 pm, Seattle...
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FAN 176 (First Amendment News) Arizona State University to Host Major...
As you can see from the two news items mentioned below, the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University continues to make its presence known (and in big ways) in the First Amendment...
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FAN 177 (First Amendment News) “Make No Law” First Amendment Pocast Series...
Over at Popehat a new First Amendment podcast series has been launched; it’s titled “Make No Law” and is hosted on the Legal Talk Network. The podcasts are conducted by Kenneth P. White, a criminal...
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FAN 178 (First Amendment News) On Hate Speech — Dershowitz Review Draws Reply
The bigot is not a stand-in for Tom Paine. . . . Reality is not paradoxical. Our answer to the question, does defending Nazis really strengthen the system of free speech, is . . . generally no....
View ArticleUCLA Law Review Vol. 64, Issue 6
Volume 64, Issue 6 (December 2017) Articles Inner-City Anti-Poverty Campaigns Anthony V. Alfieri 1374 Movement Lawyers in the Fight for Immigrant Rights Sameer M. Ashar 1464 From Stop and Frisk to...
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FAN 179 (First Amendment News) Does existing First Amendment law endanger our...
The [Muller] indictment . . . described how fraudulent Russian accounts on Twitter tried to push real Americans into action. The indictment said the fake Twitter account @March_for_Trump had organized...
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FAN 180 (First Amendment News) Cert. Petition — Does Renton v. Playtime...
J. Michael Murray His name is J. Michael Murray. He is a criminal defense lawyer out of Ohio. He is also a First Amendment lawyer and past president of the First Amendment Lawyers Association. Mr....
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FAN 181 (First Amendment News) Tomorrow: Argument in S. Dist. N.Y. Ct. —...
President Trump’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, has become an important source of news and information about the government, and an important public forum for speech by, to, and about the...
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FAN 182 (First Amendment News) Can free speech be progressive? Professor...
Civil liberties once were radical. — Laura Weinrib (2016) The notion that our free speech tradition might be weaponized to advance progressive ends is fanciful. — Louis Michael Seidman Professor...
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FAN 183 (First Amendment News) Pushback: Seidman’s “Can Free Speech Be...
Declining support for unfettered debate among politicians, academics, and the public doesn’t bode well for the future of free speech. — J.D. Tuccille, March 19, 2018 There’s dissent in the air — from...
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FAN 184 (First Amendment News) Institute for Free Speech releases free speech...
The Institute for Free Speech has just released a 102-page report titled Free Speech Index – Grading the 50 States on Political Giving Freedom. The foreword to the report was written by Bradley A....
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FAN 185 (First Amendment News) Nearly $2 million awarded in anti-SLAPP case...
The case is Adelson v. Harris (S.D., N.Y., 12 Civ. 6052 (JPO) (March 29, 2018). The matter involved a claim by “billionaire casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson against the National Jewish Democratic...
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FAN 186 (First Amendment News) Major new book on Anthony Comstock & his...
“Lust on Trial” is the story of the most extraordinary efforts in American history to make us a moral Christian nation . . . . [It is the story of a man] who truly believed that lust would lead mankind...
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Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein to be interviewed at Newesum on May 1st, Law Day —...
Newseum, Wash., D.C. A Law Day Conversation With Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General of the United States Tuesday, May 1, 2018 / 2:00 p.m. Newseum, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Theater, Washington,...
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