Methods of Interpretation

Print
Article
What's the Harm? The Future of the First Amendment
The First Amendment as a Procrustean Bed?: On How and Why Bright Line First Amendment Tests Can Stifle the Scope and Validity of Democratic Deliberation
Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.
John S. Stone Chair, Professor of Law, and Director of Faculty Research, University of Alabama School of Law.

With my thanks and appreciation to the editors of the University of Chicago Legal Forum for inviting me to participate in the What’s the Harm?: The Future of the First Amendment symposium at the University of Chicago School of Law. I also wish to express my thanks to the other participants in the symposium for their helpful and constructive comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this Essay. The usual disclaimer applies: any and all errors or omissions are the author’s responsibility alone.

In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a notorious bandit who would abduct travelers and then offer them a rather macabre form of hospitality.

Volumes

  • 2016
    Policing the Police
  • 2015
    Does Election Law Serve the Electorate?
  • 2014
    The Civil Rights Act at 50 Years
  • 2013
    Combating Corruption
  • 2012
    Frontiers of Consumer Protection
  • 2011
    Governance and Power
  • 2010
    Crime, Criminal Law, and the Recession
  • 2009
    Civil Rights Law and the Low-Wage Worker
  • 2008
    Law in a Networked World
  • 2007
    Immigration Law and Policy
  • 2006
    Law and Life: Definitions and Decisionmaking