Free Speech On Trial – Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Dec…

Free Speech on TrialCommunication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions\nAuthor(s): Richard Parker, Richard Parker, Susan Balter-Re, Mary Bezanso\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817350253, 978-0817350253\nSynopsis\nDescribes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them. At the intersection of communication and First Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and why should we protect it? The 20 scholars of legal communication whose essays are gathered in this volume propose various answers to these questions, but their essays share an abiding concern with a constitutional guarantee of free speech and its symbiotic relationship with communication practices. Free Speech on Trial fills a gap between textbooks that summarize First Amendm.