Fear and the First Amendment: Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court

In Fear and the First Amendment, Kevin A. Johnson and Craig R. Smith offer an examination of the ways fear figures in First Amendment questions ruled on by the Supreme Court. Johnson and Smith focus on the rulings from the Roberts Court. Each chapter in this book analyzes one or more First Amendment cases and a variety of related fears that pertain to a given case.



These cases include Morse v. Frederick, which takes up the competing fears of school administrators' loss of authority and stude...