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Reason
Reason
Politics
Eugene Volokh

"Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Chilling Effect on Controversial Faculty Speech

I have an article titled "Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine forthcoming in several months in the George Mason Law Review, and I wanted to serialize a draft of it here. There is still time to edit it, so I'd love to hear people's feedback. The material below omits the footnotes (except a few that I've moved into text, marked with {}s, as I normally do when I move text within quotes); if you want to see the footnotes—or read the whole draft at once—you can read this PDF. You can see the opening sections  drawing the Fairness Doctrine / viewpoint diversity requirements analogy here; here is a section that explains how one of the problems with the Fairness Doctrine is likely to also arise with viewpoint diversity requirements.

[V.] Chilling Effect on Controversial Faculty Speech and on the Hiring of Controversial Faculty

[A.] The Fairness Doctrine

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