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The Future of Free Speech Law
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The Future of Free Speech Law Hardcover - 1990

by R. George Wright; Robert G. Wright


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This provocative exploration of the issues surrounding free speech protection calls into question some important assumptions underlying much of contemporary free speech case law. The author considers the free speech issues associated with matters as diverse as the use of racial epithets, flag burning, obscenity, and speech by public school students, public school teachers, and public employees in general. He argues persuasively that free speech law has become unnecessarily complex and that free speech protection has been extended well beyond the bounds suggested by the various reasons for protecting speech in the first place. These developments, Professor Wright contends, risk an eventual weakening of the public commitment to free speech as a fundamental value. In a series of chapters--some broadly theoretical in character, others focused on concrete free speech cases--Wright develops his argument that the courts' tendency to gradually expand the scope of protection afforded by the free speech clause dilutes the essential seriousness of the clause and will eventually tend to erode public support for freedom of speech as a fundamental principal. On a more abstract level, Wright demonstrates that, increasingly, the case law of freedom of speech is grounded only in some form of relativist or subjectivist thought. The long-term risk, Wright suggests, is that our adoption of freedom of speech may come to be seen as an arbitrary preference without morally binding character in any traditional sense. Writing for students of constitutional law as well as practicing attorneys involved in free speech cases, this volume is an important counterweight to arguments in support of continual expansion of free speech protection.

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  • Title The Future of Free Speech Law
  • Author R. George Wright; Robert G. Wright
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, New York, Westport, CT & London
  • Date 1990-06-27
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780899305394 / 0899305393
  • Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.75 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89-49430
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.302

About the author

R. GEORGE WRIGHT is is Michael D. McCormick Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis.
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