Figures of Speech

First Amendment Heroes and Villains

William Turner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2011
PoliPointPress, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-936227-03-7 (ISBN)

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For the last 25 years, William Bennett Turner has taught a course on the First Amendment at UC Berkeley. Figures of Speech, describes the colourful characters who have played roles in important First Amendment controversies. Turner illustrates broad First Amendment principles and describes how we've arrived at our contemporary understanding of the First Amendment's meaning.

For the last 25 years, William Bennett Turner has taught a course on the First Amendment at UC Berkeley. His book, Figures of Speech, describes the colorful characters who have played roles in important First Amendment controversies. Choosing figures and cases from his own personal experience, Turner illustrates broad First Amendment principles and describes how we've arrived at our contemporary understanding of the First Amendment's meaning.

For the past 29 years, William Bennett Turner has taught course on freedom of speech and the press at the University of California at Berkeley. He has also taught First Amendment courses at OLLI@Berkeley and at the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco. Mr. Turner practiced law for 45 years. As a San Francisco lawyer, he specialized in unusual litigation, including constitutional law. He argued three cases before the United States Supreme Court (including two First Amendment cases) and more than 40 cases in lower appellate courts, and he served as lead counsel in many notable state and federal trials. He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1963 and, after a Fulbright fellowship in comparative law, he spent three years with a New York law firm. This was followed by nearly ten years with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund doing civil rights law. He returned to teach at Harvard in 1977. He founded his own law firm in San Francisco in 1978 and served as its senior partner until 1992. He was of counsel to the firm of Rogers Joseph O'Donnell from 1992 to 2008. Mr. Turner has published more than 40 articles in various magazines, newspapers and law reviews. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Politico, Wired, the San Francisco Chronicle, Harvard Magazine, The Threepenny Review and many other publications. He also served as Legal Affairs Correspondent for KQED television, winning numerous awards for news and documentaries on legal subjects. He was Legal Consultant to the PBS ""We The People"" series on the Bicentennial of the Constitution. He is the author of Figures of Speech: First Amendment Heroes and Villains.

Foreword: Anthony Lewis
Introduction
Chapter 1: Yetta Stromberg
Chapter 2: Jehovah's Witnesses
Chapter 3: Dannie Martin
Chapter 4: Raymond Procunier and Robert H. Schnacke
Chapter 5: Earl Caldwell
Chapter 6: Richard Hongisto
Chapter 7: Clarence Brandenburg
Chapter 8: Larry Flynt
Chapter 9: Clinton Fein and the ACLU

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2011
Verlagsort	Sausalito
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 216 mm
Gewicht	329 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-936227-03-7 / 1936227037
ISBN-13	978-1-936227-03-7 / 9781936227037
Zustand	Neuware