Eric B. Easton

Gebundenes Buch

Defending the Masses: A Progressive Lawyer's Battles for Free Speech

Beschreibung

Free speech and freedom of the press were often suppressed amid the turbulence of the Progressive Era and World War I. As feminists, pacifists, anarchists, socialists, and communists were arrested for their outspoken views, many of them turned to a Manhattan lawyer named Gilbert Roe. Roe's battles with the courts illuminate the evolution of free speech doctrine in an era when it was under heavy assault.

Autor

Eric Easton is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore and the director of the LL.M. program in the law of the United States. He is the editor of the Journal of Media Law & Ethics and the author of Mobilizing the Press: Defending the First Amendment in the Supreme Court.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780299314002
• ISBN-10: 0299314006
• Artikelnr.: 48251415