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Friend of the court : on the front lines with the First Amendment
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Title
Friend of the court : on the front lines with the First Amendment / Floyd Abrams.
ISBN
0300195036
1299608132
9780300195033
9781299608139
9780300190878
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 473 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Abrams, Floyd. Friend of the court. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 07, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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; Free trade in ideas ; The Brooklyn Museum case ; A worthy tradition: the scholar and the First Amendment ; Reticence repealed?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.
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