Thursday, May 21, 2009
Why Protect Lies?
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, University of Florida College of Law, has published Where's the Harm?: Free Speech and the Regulation of Lies, at 65 Washington and Lee Law Review 1091 (2008). Here is the abstract.
Why does the First Amendment accord a measure of protection to lies? Using Holocaust denial as an example of verifiably false speech, this essay poses the question of whether such speech poses a more serious danger than First Amendment jurisprudence typically has acknowledged.
Download the article from SSRN here.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2009/05/why-protect-lies.html