Confessions of a free speech lawyer : Charlottesville and the politics of hate / Rodney A. Smolla.

"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer is a personal and scholarly examination of the violent confrontations in Charlottesville and the University of Virginia campus in the summer of 2017, focusing on the clash between free speech and protection of civil rights and human dignity"--

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Main Author: Smolla, Rodney A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • A Call from the Task Force
  • The Charleston Massacre
  • Becoming Richard Spencer
  • Reverend Edwards
  • The Charlottesville Monuments
  • Blut und Boden
  • Mr. Jefferson's University
  • Kessler v. Bellamy
  • The Monuments Debate
  • Competing Conceptions of Free Speech
  • May Days
  • Cue the Klan Stage Right
  • The Rise of the Marketplace
  • Cue the Counter-Protesters Stage Left
  • A Rolling Stone Gathers No Facts
  • The Marketplace Doubles Down
  • The Day of the Klan
  • When Speech Advances Civil Rights
  • Duke and the Disciples
  • The Russian Connection
  • A Call to Conscience
  • Preparations
  • The Day of the Cross
  • The Idea of the University
  • Heckler's Veto
  • Channels of Communication
  • Rednecks and Saint Paul
  • The Lawn and the Rotunda
  • Bloodshed
  • Aftermath.