Fear and the First Amendment : Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court

The University of Alabama Press

Fear and the First AmendmentControversial Cases of the Roberts Court\nAuthor(s): Kevin A. Johnson, Craig R. Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817361457, 978-0817361457\nSynopsis\nA highly original account of the role that fear plays in key First Amendment cases ruled on by the Roberts Supreme Court\n\n In Fear and the First Amendment, Kevin A. Johnson and Craig R. Smith offer a deeply considered examination of the ways fear figures in First Amendment questions ruled on by the contemporary Supreme Court. Bringing together literature on theories of fear in rhetorical and philosophical traditions, Johnson and Smith focus on the rulings from the Roberts Court, which form a pivotal era of dramatic precedents. Each chapter in this book analyzes one or more First Amendment cases and a variety of related fears--whether evidentiary or not--that pertain to a given case.\n\n These cases inc.