Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 473 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300195036
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1299608132
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9780300190878
,
9780300195033
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9781299608139
Inhalt:
This collection of Abrams' writings gathers speeches, articles, debates, briefs, oral arguments, and testimony from his entire career. The writings illuminate topics of ongoing import: WikiLeaks, the correctness of the Citizens United case, journalist shield laws, and, not least, the responsibilities of the press
Inhalt:
The vice of censorship : State censorship ; The First Amendment, under fire from the left: debating Catharine MacKinnon ; On fleeting expletives ; Free trade in ideas ; The Brooklyn Museum case ; A worthy tradition: the scholar and the First Amendment ; Reticence repealed? ; The First Amendment and the ACLU -- The United States and the world : The right to know ; Defending the British press ; Through the looking glass ; The U.S. First Amendment tradition and Article 19 ; Our American hate speech law ; Looking abroad for law -- The First Amendment and national security : The Pentagon Papers a decade later ; The Pentagon Papers after four decades ; Big Brother's here and-alas-we embrace him ; The First Amendment and the war against terrorism ; Freedom in especially perilous times -- Presidents vs. the First Amendment : Theodore Roosevelt and the press ; The new effort to control information: the Reagan administration ; Clinton vs. the First Amendment ; Not so free speech in the Bush administration -- On libel and privacy : On libel ; Sullivan in the yeart 2000: will it-should it-survive? Be careful what you sue for ; Warren and Brandeis: what about the First Amendment? -- Copyright woes : Oral argument on behalf of the Nation decision -- The First Amendment and copyright -- Amending the Copyright Act -- Theft is theft, even online -- Confidential sources : Protecting confidential sources ; Even Mozambique wouldn't jail them, but the U.S. might ; Adopt a federal shield law ; History, journalists and the law in the new century -- Citizens United : Congress turns political speech into a crime ; Excerpts from Citizens United amicus curiae brief of Senator Mitch McConnell ; Citizens United and its critics ; Citizens United and the Brennan Center ; Debating Citizens United with Burt Neuborne ; The devastating decision: an exchange with Ronald Dworkin ; Serious evil, serious injury and Citizens United: interview with Richard Heffner -- Assessing the press : In defense of that biased, ignorant, rapacious arrogant knee-jerk irresponsible press ; The Fisrt Amendment and its protectors ; Judging the press ; Battles not worth fighting ; On the new America ; On Bill and Monica ; Why WikiLeaks is unlike the Pentagon Papers ; Don't cry for Julian Assange ; On WikiLeaks -- Reflections : First Amendment near-absolutism ; Serious injury, serious evil and the First Amendment ; On thinking about the First Amendment and the Internet ; Look who's trashing the Fisrt Amendment ; Look who's trashing the First Amendment : Interview with Richard Heffner ; Speech and power: is First Amendment absolutism obsolete? ; First Amendment deserves more than fleeting friends
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Abrams, Floyd Friend of the court New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Sprache:
Englisch
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