Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know®

This concise but comprehensive book lays out specific answers to myriad topical questions about free speech law, and also general explanations of how and why the law distinguishes between protected and punishable speech.



The book focuses on modern First Amendment law, explaining the historic factors that propelled its evolution in a more speech-protective direction-in particular, the Civil Rights Movement. It highlights the many cases, involving multiple issues, in which robust speech-protec...