Judging Free Speech contains nine original essays by political scientists and law professors, each providing a comprehensive, yet concise and accessible overview of the free speech jurisprudence of a United States Supreme Court Justice.

Original essays analyzing the free speech jurisprudence of nine Supreme Court justices

Introduction: Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave (Helen J. Knowles And Steven B. Lichtman) 1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. And The 'Marketplace Of Ideas': Experience Proves To Be The 'Life Of The Law' (Frederick Lewis) 2. George Sutherland And The Business Of Expression (Samuel R. Olken) 3. Absolutism And Democracy: Hugo L. Black's Free Speech Jurisprudence (Michael Paris And Kevin J. Mcmahon) 4. 'Another's Lyric': John Marshall Harlan II, Judicial Conservatism, And Free Speech (Douglas E. Edlin) 5. Justice Civility: William J. Brennan Jr.'S Free Speech Jurisprudence (James C. Foster) 6. Potter Stewart Meets The Press (Keith J. Bybee) 7. Anthony M. Kennedy: 'Speech Is The Beginning Of Thought' (Helen J. Knowles) 8. Black Like Me: The Free Speech Jurisprudence Of Clarence Thomas (Steven B. Lichtman) 9. Stephen Breyer And The First Amendment As Legal Doctrine (Mark Tushnet) Conclusion: It's Complicated . . . (Helen J. Knowles And Steven B. Lichtman)