Document Type
Essay/Newsletter
Media Type
Text
Abstract
In this essay, Dean Stone describes three examples of recent challenges to the principle of free expression. Addressing such diverse challenges as Jerry Falwell's dispute with Hustler Magazine and the University of Michigan's prohibition of "hate speech," Stone suggests that there may be dawning a new age of repression. In the final analysis, though, Stone is unable to conclude such a new age is upon us. The challenges may represent a last-ditch effort to forestall the virtually complete abolition of governmentally-enforced standards of decency and civility in public discourse.
First Page
425
Last Page
434
Publication Date
5-1-1992
Department
Other
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Stone, Geoffrey R.
(1992)
"Current Challenges to Free Expression: A New Age of Repression?,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 12:
Iss.
2, Article 2.
Suggested Citation
Geoffrey R. Stone, Current Challenges to Free Expression: A New Age of Repression?, 12 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 425 (1992).
