Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State

by Robert C. Post

Book Overview

A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the "marketplace of ideas" and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an opinion," is inadequate to create and preserve the expert knowledge that is necessary for a modern democracy to thrive. For a modern society reliably to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300192495
• ISBN13: 9780300192490
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"