Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment - Couverture souple

Downs, Donald Alexander

 
9780268014629: Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0268014620 ISBN 13 : 9780268014629
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 1986

Synopsis

In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked survivor community rose in protest and the issue went to court, with the ACLU defending the Nazis' right to free speech. The court ruled in the Nazis' favor. According to the "content neutrality doctrine" governing First Amendment jurisprudence, the Nazis' insults and villifications were "neutral"--not the issue, as far as the law was concerned. But to Downs, they are at issue. In Nazis in Skokie he challenges the doctrine of "content neutrality" and presents an argument for the minimal abridgment of free speech when that speech in intentionally harmful. Draawing on his interviews with participants in the conflict, Downs combines detailed social history with informed legal interpretation in a provocative examination of an abiding tension between individual freedom and community integrity, and between procedural and substantive justice.

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À propos de l?auteur

Donald Downs is the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science, Law, and Journalism at UW-Madison, and the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University. He is also the director and co-founder of the University's Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy (2007-present). In 2013, Downs received the national Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award for his defense of academic freedom and freedom of thought at UW-Madison and in higher education generally. Downs also won the University's 2014 Hilldale Award in the Social Studies for " A Distinguished Career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Research, Teaching, and Service."

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
1986
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268014620
ISBN 13 
9780268014629
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780268009687: Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0268009686 ISBN 13 :  9780268009687
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 1985
Couverture rigide