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Title:

Speech and silence in American law / edited by Austin Sarat.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xi, 227 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Freedom of speech--United States.
Silence (Law)--United States.

Other Authors:

Sarat, Austin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: situating speech and silence / Austin Sarat -- "Our word is our bond" / Marianne Constable -- Our word [or the lack thereof] is our bond: the regulation of silence under contract law / Grace Soyon Lee -- Powell's choice: the law and morality of speech, silence, and resignation by high government officials / Louis Michael Seidman -- Resignations, the (quasi) plural executive, and a critical assessment of the unitary executive theory / Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. -- Anonymous: on silence and the public sphere / Danielle Allen -- Silencing by exclusion: a reaction to anonymous: on silence and the public sphere / Heather Elliott -- Freedom of expression, political fraud, and the dilemma of anonymity / Martin H. Redish -- Anonymity, signaling, and silence as speech / Paul Horwitz -- Speech, silence, the body / Peter Brooks -- Torture and Miranda / Frederick Vars.

ISBN:

0521113377 (hardback)
9780521113373 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)495475462

LCCN:

2009053556

Locations:

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)