In this book, ten First Amendment scholars analyze various aspects and issues related to speech freedom on campus.

Traditionally, the university or college is thought to be the ultimate location for the discovery and sharing of knowledge. After all, on these campuses are some of the great minds across all fields, as well as students who are not only eager to learn, but who often contribute to our shared wisdom. For those ideals to be achieved, however, ideas require access to some kind of virtual marketplace from which people can sample and consider them, discuss and debate them. Restricting the expression of those ideas for whatever reason is the enemy of not only this process, but also of knowledge discovery. Speech freedom on our college and university campuses, like everywhere else, is fragile. There are those who wish to suppress it, more often than not when the words express ideas, opinions, and even facts that conflict with their beliefs. Why is this effort, so completely at odds with the foundational values of this country, made? This topic explored in Speech Freedom on Campus: Past, Present and Future is multi-layered, and its analysis is best accomplished through multiple perspectives. Joseph Russomanno’s edited collection does precisely that, utilizing 10 different scholars to examine various aspects and issues related to speech freedom on campus.

Foreword

Erwin Chemerinsky

Introduction

Joseph Russomanno

Chapter 1: Free Speech on Campus: A Challenge of Our Times

Geoffrey R. Stone

Chapter 2: The Holmesian Experiment and the Democratization of Truth in the Academy

Ronald K.L. Collins

Chapter 3: Teaching and Preaching Free Speech

Rodney A. Smolla

Chapter 4: Conservatism and Free Speech in Higher Education

Joe Dryden

Chapter 5: Doing the Work: Defending Campus Speech Rights in the Culture War

Will Creeley

Chapter 6: A Confluence on Campus

Joseph Russomanno

Chapter 7: Beyond Free Speech Rhetoric: Framing Campus Free Speech Conflicts

Christina E. Wells

Chapter 8: The Awful Ruling of Garcetti v. Ceballos and Its Application at the University Level

David L. Hudson, Jr.

Chapter 9: Free Speech Values in the Classroom

Erica Goldberg

Chapter 10: Managing the Peculiar Marketplace in the Face of Extremism

Brett G. Johnson and Jeremiah P. Fuzy

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