Geoffrey R Stone
Biographic Data
| ID | 705951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey R Stone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey R |
| FAMILY NAME | Stone |
| SIGNATURE | STONE G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Opening Dialogue
To set the stage for the excellent essays that make up this volume on the future of free speech, let's begin where we often do when thinking together about the First Amendment: with some basic facts and fundamental observations about the constitutional command that “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”1Of course, in the United States, “free speech” is not only part of the constitutional Bill of Rights;…
Free Speech and World War II
This article presents a history of free speech in wartime in the United States from the end of World War I to the end of World War II
Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy
Democracy and Equality
From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they can't afford…
Secrets and Leaks
Six Amendments
The U.S. Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times. Twenty-five of those amendments were designed in one way or another to improve the text of the Constitution. Only two of those amendments were designed to override what the nation deemed an erroneous interpretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court. The Eleventh Amendment, adopted in 1798, overrode the Court's decision in Chisolm v. Georgia (1793), which had held that a citizen of …
The Supreme Court in the 21st Century
How does the Supreme Court serve the “common good”? What is the Court's responsibility, as the ultimate interpreter of the Constitution, in our constitutional system of government? This essay explores that question with an eye on the recent performance of the Court in highly controversial and divisive cases. What explains the Court's decisions in cases involving such issues as campaign finance regulation, gun control, abortion, affirmative action…
Privacy, the First Amendment, and the Internet
The Offensive Internet
The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophisticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has mesmerized libertarians and communitarians alike. Lawmakers have joined the celebration, passing the Communications Decency Act, which enables Internet Service Providers to allow unregulated discourse without danger of liability, all in the name of enhancing fr…
The Tie Goes to Freedom
Journal Article The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty by Helen J. Knowles Get access The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty by Helen J. Knowles. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009. 312 pp. $44.95. Geoffrey R. Stone Geoffrey R. Stone The University of Chicago Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 1…
American Juries
Darkest Before Dawn
Geoffrey R. Stone
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus. By Donald Alexander Downs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 318p. $28.99 cloth, $19.99 paper. Rarely have I read a book with whose core thesis I so fully agree but which nonetheless so sets my teeth gnashing. I begin with the agreement, which is more important, and return later to the gnashing
Eternally Vigilant
While freedom of speech has been guaranteed us for centuries, the First Amendment as we know it today is largely a creation of the past 80 years. Eternally Vigilant brings together a group of distinguished legal scholars to reflect boldly on its past, its present shape, and what forms our understanding of it might take in the future. The result is a unique volume spanning the entire spectrum of First Amendment issues, from its philosophical under…
Content-Neutral Restrictions
Repeating past mistakes
The Canadian Charter of Rights
The Canadian Charter of Rights: The Prosecution and Defence of Criminal and Other Statutory Offences, by Roderick M. McLeod, John D.F. Takach, Howard F. Morton, Murray D. Segall. Toronto: The Carswell Company Ltd., 1983. 1 vol. (loose-leaf, var. Pag.). - Volume 12 Issue 1-2
Intelligence as Governance
literature that began to emerge in the early 1970s in response to congressional committee revelations of widespread intelligence abuses. The author, Frank Donner, is a lawyer who admits to a long-standing obsession with his own personal surveillance of official repression of dissent. For more than thirty years Donner has collected and catalogued data on government efforts at suppression. In the 1950s Donner acted as a trial consultant and appella…
Surveillance and Subversion
Restrictions of Speech Because of Its Content
Governmental restrictions of expression may be divided into two general categories-content-neutral restrictions and contentbased restrictions.'Content-neutral restrictions restrict communication without regard to the message conveyed.Laws prohibiting noisy speeches near a hospital, banning the erection of any billboards in residential communities, or requiring disclosure of the names of leafleteers are examples.In judging the constitutionality of…
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Restrictions of Speech Because of Its Content
Governmental restrictions of expression may be divided into two general categories-content-neutral restrictions and contentbased restrictions.'Content-neutral restrictions restrict communication without regard to the message conveyed.Laws prohibiting noisy speeches near a hospital, banning the erection of any billboards in residential communities, or requiring disclosure of the names of leafleteers are examples.In judging the constitutionality of…
Surveillance and Subversion
Intelligence as Governance
literature that began to emerge in the early 1970s in response to congressional committee revelations of widespread intelligence abuses. The author, Frank Donner, is a lawyer who admits to a long-standing obsession with his own personal surveillance of official repression of dissent. For more than thirty years Donner has collected and catalogued data on government efforts at suppression. In the 1950s Donner acted as a trial consultant and appella…
The Canadian Charter of Rights
The Canadian Charter of Rights: The Prosecution and Defence of Criminal and Other Statutory Offences, by Roderick M. McLeod, John D.F. Takach, Howard F. Morton, Murray D. Segall. Toronto: The Carswell Company Ltd., 1983. 1 vol. (loose-leaf, var. Pag.). - Volume 12 Issue 1-2
Content-Neutral Restrictions
Repeating past mistakes
Eternally Vigilant
While freedom of speech has been guaranteed us for centuries, the First Amendment as we know it today is largely a creation of the past 80 years. Eternally Vigilant brings together a group of distinguished legal scholars to reflect boldly on its past, its present shape, and what forms our understanding of it might take in the future. The result is a unique volume spanning the entire spectrum of First Amendment issues, from its philosophical under…
Geoffrey R. Stone
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus. By Donald Alexander Downs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 318p. $28.99 cloth, $19.99 paper. Rarely have I read a book with whose core thesis I so fully agree but which nonetheless so sets my teeth gnashing. I begin with the agreement, which is more important, and return later to the gnashing
Darkest Before Dawn
American Juries
The Tie Goes to Freedom
Journal Article The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty by Helen J. Knowles Get access The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty by Helen J. Knowles. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009. 312 pp. $44.95. Geoffrey R. Stone Geoffrey R. Stone The University of Chicago Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 1…
Privacy, the First Amendment, and the Internet
The Offensive Internet
The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophisticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has mesmerized libertarians and communitarians alike. Lawmakers have joined the celebration, passing the Communications Decency Act, which enables Internet Service Providers to allow unregulated discourse without danger of liability, all in the name of enhancing fr…
The Supreme Court in the 21st Century
How does the Supreme Court serve the “common good”? What is the Court's responsibility, as the ultimate interpreter of the Constitution, in our constitutional system of government? This essay explores that question with an eye on the recent performance of the Court in highly controversial and divisive cases. What explains the Court's decisions in cases involving such issues as campaign finance regulation, gun control, abortion, affirmative action…
Secrets and Leaks
Six Amendments
The U.S. Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times. Twenty-five of those amendments were designed in one way or another to improve the text of the Constitution. Only two of those amendments were designed to override what the nation deemed an erroneous interpretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court. The Eleventh Amendment, adopted in 1798, overrode the Court's decision in Chisolm v. Georgia (1793), which had held that a citizen of …
Democracy and Equality
From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they can't afford…
Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy
Free Speech and World War II
This article presents a history of free speech in wartime in the United States from the end of World War I to the end of World War II
Opening Dialogue
To set the stage for the excellent essays that make up this volume on the future of free speech, let's begin where we often do when thinking together about the First Amendment: with some basic facts and fundamental observations about the constitutional command that “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”1Of course, in the United States, “free speech” is not only part of the constitutional Bill of Rights;…
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