Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, where he teaches and writes about First Amendment law. He also directs the UCLA First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, which has filed briefs in over 100 cases throughout the country. Here, Professor Volokh confronts attempts to outlaw criticism as …
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, has had a long and warm relationship with the faculty of the Cleveland Marshall College of Law. He is the author of a highly regarded textbook on Constitutional Law, was the founding dean of the University of …
Today, Your Witness forum begins a new series entitled “The Advocates.” Along with essays on legal issues in the Your Witness forum, “The Advocates” will highlight the contributions of particular lawyers who have advanced the cause of the rule of law and liberty under the Constitution. Our first contribution is by Jonathan L. Entin, David …
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Editor’s Note: Robert Alt, President and CEO of the Buckeye Institute, urges that a reform of Ohio’s drug laws, in Senate Bill 3, will give hope to the addicted, punish those who are truly responsible, and save lives. Robert Alt, your witness… Ohio has faced two severe public health crises this year—the COVID-19 pandemic and …
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Last term, the Supreme Court decided the case of Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru, holding that the First Amendment protects religious institutions from having to follow statutory employment regulations in regard to employees who can be characterized as having a religious ministerial role. Doron Kalir, Clinical Professor of Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, …
The Anti-Suffragists came late into the fray. Ever since the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, when, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women organized to end discriminatory legislation and to press for suffrage, the activists seemed to have defined the terms of the national debate. Yet when the issue came down to votes for women, many …
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An important function of the First Amendment is to protect unpopular viewpoints from governmental suppression, affording them the chance to gain acceptance in the marketplace of public opinion. Some ideas that are widely accepted today started out as detested minority viewpoints. One such idea—which was widely and bitterly opposed for nearly seventy years—is the notion …
“Speak, your servant is listening.”–1 Samuel 3:10 “You can’t persuade people who won’t listen.” –Plato, The Republic Of the four classical virtues—wisdom, courage, temperance, justice—the ancients prized wisdom as the greatest of all. But how is wisdom attained? Wisdom comes from knowledge. Knowledge is gained from the search for truth. But to seek the truth, one …