Commercial Speech as Free Expression: The Case for First Amendment Protection

by Martin H Redish and Martin H. Redish

For many years, commercial speech was summarily excluded from First Amendment protection, without reason or logic. Starting in the mid-1970s, the Supreme Court began to extend protection but it remained strictly limited. In recent years, that protection has expanded, but both Court and scholars have refused to consider treating commercial speech as the First Amendment equivalent of traditionally protected expressive categories such as political speech...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110841740X
• ISBN13: 9781108417402
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"