Description: Explores the line between free speech protected by the First Amendment and unprotected incitement to imminent lawless action.
Brief description: JoAnne Sweeny is a Professor of Law at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville. Her primary area of scholarship is the freedom of expression and feminist jurisprudence.
Review Quotes:
"With contributions from law professors, political scientists, and philosophers, this volume is a vital addition to the literature on free expression ... Highly recommended." -- CHOICE
"Authors from different perspectives in Free Speech and Incitement in the Twenty-First Century help the reader understand the difference between free speech and incitement." -- First Amendment News
"This is a substantial contribution to the field of free speech law because it looks to new challenges to the Brandenburg test and toward horizons of future free speech jurisprudence in ways that are both critically important to our contemporary politics and scholarly impactful to the field. This volume ranges across a number of pertinent problems and issues with the incitement test in a way that both informs and updates scholars but also calls on them to analyze and critically reflect. It certainly deepened my understanding of free speech law." -- Jay Douglas Steinmetz, author of Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda: The Political Development of Hollywood, 1907-1927