1st Edition

Liberalism Divided Freedom Of Speech And The Many Uses Of State Power

By Owen Fiss Copyright 1996
    202 Pages
    by Routledge

    204 Pages
    by Routledge

    Professor Fiss examines contemporary free-speech issues in the context of the collision of liberal ideas of equality and freedom with modern social structures and speculates on what role the state might play in furthering robust public debate.

    Free speech and social structure; why the state?; silence on the street corner; freedom and feminism; state activism and state censorship; the right kind of neutrality; free speech and the prior-restraint doctrine; building a free press.

    Biography

    Fiss, Owen