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Free Speech on Campus

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Yale University Press, United States
Published: 24th Oct 2017
Dimensions: w 137mm h 225mm d 23mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN-10: 030022656X
ISBN-13: 9780300226560
Barcode No: 9780300226560
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Synopsis
Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment? "An urgent and indispensable roadmap to guide us through one of the most divisive periods in American history."-Stephen Rohde, Los Angeles Review of Books Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory learning environment. On the other side are traditional free speech advocates who charge that recent demands for censorship coddle students and threaten free inquiry. In this clear and carefully reasoned book, a university chancellor and a law school dean-both constitutional scholars who teach a course in free speech to undergraduates-argue that campuses must provide supportive learning environments for an increasingly diverse student body but can never restrict the expression of ideas. This book provides the background necessary to understanding the importance of free speech on campus and offers clear prescriptions for what colleges can and can't do when dealing with free speech controversies.

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"An urgent and indispensable roadmap to guide us through one of the most divisive periods in American history."-Stephen Rohde, Los Angeles Review of Books

"A thoughtful and insightful defense both of free speech on American campuses and the need to develop and protect inclusive learning environments, plus lots of good advice for current campus leaders."-Peter McPherson, President, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

"Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman have written a concise and valuable history of the evolution of freedom of speech policies and laws in the U.S....A masterful analysis of a cherished American right and a must-read for higher education leaders."-Mary Sue Coleman, President, Association of American Universities

"As free speech conflicts on college campuses seem to arise with ever greater frequency, the need for a top to bottom analysis of how to think about the topic has become all the more urgent. With this book, we finally have it, a subtle yet passionate-and easily readable-overview that should guide all students as well as the rest of us."-Floyd Abrams, author of The Soul of the First Amendment

"Balanced, comprehensive, and authoritative, Free Speech on Campus is a must-read for college administrators, scholars and practitioners of First Amendment law and activists of all political persuasions."-Joan DelFattore, author of Knowledge in the Making: Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities



"At a time when freedom of speech on college campuses is under serious attack, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman offer a concise and powerful defense of academic freedom that every college administrator should read."-Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago