Floyd Abrams was invited to say a few words about his latest book Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment (Yale University Press, 2013). His comments are set forth below. When one tries to determine which of his articles, speeches, testimony, letters, reviews and the like over a 45-year period […]
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Floyd Abrams & the First Amendment: The Risks of Liberty
Here is the last installment before Mr. Abrams’s post. Thanks to Eugene for having me and thanks to all for the comments (critical ones included) from your readers. RC “Our approach under the First Amendment has wisely, I think, generally been to risk suffering the harm that speech may do in order to avoid the […]
Floyd Abrams & the First Amendment: Enter Alex Bickel
Sometimes Fortuna deals a hand that forever changes the arc of one’s life. And so it was when Floyd Abrams met a remarkable man from Romania. After graduating from Cornell in 1956, Floyd Abrams ventured to New Haven to study law at Yale Law School, home of many renowned constitutional law scholars. Once there, Abrams […]
Floyd Abrams & the First Amendment: Nuance & Absolutism
Prior to Nuanced Absolutism I had known Floyd Abrams for years, but largely in a professional capacity as a colleague in the First Amendment community. When my book The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader. (Cambridge University Press, 2010) came out, I sent him a copy. He read it and replied with a […]
Floyd Abrams & the First Amendment
Ronald Collins May 13, 2013 As a longtime reader of this blog I was quite pleased when Eugene invited me to write a few words about my new book and also about Floyd Abrams’s forthcoming book, which will be out very soon. My book is titled Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams and the First Amendment. […]
Symposium on Freedom from Religion
Tomorrow, the University of Utah College of Law will host a symposium about Freedom from Religion. Based on Professor Amos N. Guiora’s new book, Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security (Oxford University Press, 2009), this Symposium will explore the limits of tolerance of religious extremism in five countries and its impact on the current […]
Justice Brandeis
By David Bernstein on September 29, 2009 8:08 am in Constitutional History, Freedom of Speech, Supreme Court
The New York Times has published two reviews of Mel Urofsky’s new biography of Louis Brandeis. I haven’t seen the book yet, but Mel had sent me the page proofs of several chapters earlier this year, and they were great. Whiles the parts of the book I read struck me as admiring but with appropriate […]