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FAN 207.1 Topics of Our Times
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From time to time we will repost essays previously published on FAN (and in some cases on First Amendment Watch as well). Of course, we will also post new essays in the coming days, so stay tuned.
- FAN 204.1: Catherine J. Ross, “Trump’s Latest Threat to Free Speech and the Academy”
- FAN 203.2: Handman and Zycherman, “Fear Not: New York Times v. Sullivan Heartily Embraced by the Court’s Newest Jurist, Justice Kavanaugh”
- FAN 203.1: Paul Sparrow, “The Newseum, the First Amendment, and a Lost History”
- FAN 202.2: Robert Corn-Revere, “The Retaliator in Chief: The Case Against Donald J. Trump”
- FAN 202.1: Lee Levine and Steven Wermiel, “Dubious Doubts and ‘the Central Meaning of the First Amendment’—A Preliminary Reply to Justice Thomas”
- FAN 201.2: Robert Corn-Revere, “Can the President Treat the Press as the Enemy of the People?”
Anniversary Symposium
Foreword
15 Contributors
- Jane Bambauer, “Diagnosing Donald Trump: Professional Speech in Disorder”
- Mary Anne Franks, “The Free Speech Fraternity”
- Sarah C. Haan, “Facebook and the Identity Business”
- Laura Handman & Lisa Zycherman, “Retaliatory RICO: A Corporate Assault on Speech”
- Marjorie Heins, “On ‘Absolutism’ and ‘Frontierism’”
- Margot Kaminski, “The First Amendment and Data Privacy: Between Reed and a Hard Place”
- Lyrissa Lidsky, “Libel, Lies, and Conspiracy Theories”
- Jasmine McNealy, “Newsworthiness, the First Amendment, and Platform Transparency”
- Helen Norton, “Taking Listeners’ First Amendment Interests Seriously”
- Tamara Piety, “A Constitutional Right to Lie? Again?: National Institute of Family and Life Advocates d/b/a NIFLA v. Becerra”
- Ruthann Robson, “The Cyber Company Town”
- Kelli Sager & Selina MacLaren, “First Amendment Rights of Access”
- Sonja West, “President Trump and the Press Clause: A Cautionary Tale”
Seidman Symposium
- FAN 194.3: Abrams Responds to Seidman’s “Can Free Speech Be Progressive?”
- FAN 194.4: Schnapper-Casteras Responds to Seidman’s “Can Free Speech Be Progressive?”
- FAN 194.8: Bambauer Responds to Seidman’s “Can Free Speech Be Progressive?”
- FAN 194.9: Collins Responds to Seidman’s “Can Free Speech Be Progressive?”
- 194.10: Delgado Responds to Michael Seidman’s “Can Free Speech Be Progressive?”
- 194.11: Seidman Responds to His Critics
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