Wendell Bird

Religious Speech and the Quest for Freedoms in the Anglo-American World (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009093323
• Artikelnr.: 70911687

Autorenporträt

Wendell Bird is the author of three other books on freedoms of speech and press: Press and Speech under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign against Dissent (Oxford University Press, 2016); Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 (Harvard University Press, 2020); and The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech: From Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act (Oxford University Press, 2020). He earned a D.Phil. in legal history from the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He is a Visiting Scholar at Emory University School of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: legacies of Judeo-Christian religion
1. The legacy of freedom of speech
2. The legacy of freedom of press
3. The legacy of freedoms for the criminally accused
4. The legacy of higher education
5. The legacy of abolition of slavery
6. The legacy of the civil rights movement
Epilogue: legacies of Judeo-Christian faiths and religious speech.