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Lessons in Censorship

How Schools and Courts Subvert Students’ First Amendment Rights

Catherine J. Ross

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$46.50 • £37.95 • €42.00

ISBN 9780674057746

Publication Date: 10/19/2015

368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Catherine J. Ross is Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School.

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At First Amendment Watch, read excerpts from Lessons in Censorship taken from the Introduction, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, and the Conclusion
Watch a Chronicle of Higher Education video featuring Catherine Ross and other experts discussing the controversial and violent protests in Charlottesville, VA, and whether racist and hate speech on college campuses (and which college campuses?) is protected under the First Amendment
On WBUR’s On Point, listen to Professor Ross discuss whether Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players’ “taking a knee” in protest during the playing of the national anthem is protected speech
Watch Ross lecture on “Silencing Speech, Diminishing Discourse: Threats to Democracy on Campus and Beyond” at an October 2017 event at American University
Via C-SPAN, watch Ross discuss freedom of speech on college campuses at a George Washington University Law School panel discussion
Read Ross’s USA Today essay exposing how educators in every part of the U.S. regularly deprive students of the right to speak their minds
At Cato Unbound, the journal of the Cato Institute, read Ross’s thoughts on recent free speech debates on college campuses
Via C-SPAN’s BookTV, watch Ross lecture on Lessons in Censorship at the Cato Institute
In Publishers Weekly, read about remarks Ross made to the Association of American Publishers about how to support free speech in schools
Listen to Ross discuss students’ rights on the Student Press Law Center podcast
On Texas Public Radio’s The Source, listen to Ross discuss the tension faced by schools between providing “safe space” for productive discussion and students’ rights to free communication
Watch Ross discuss free speech in American public schools at The Newseum in Washington, DC
Read about Ross’s research on school speech doctrine at The Conversation
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