The Latest Breaking News from Journal of Free Speech Law

One goal of our peer-reviewed Journal of Free Speech Law is to be able to publish quickly, when the author so prefers. We haven't always been as quick as we'd have liked, but it seems like we now have the proper staffing and procedures to be quite good about it.…

Just published as the first article in volume 2, issue 2 of the Journal of Free Speech Law, and available here; here's the Introduction: What harms are caused by hate speech? How can we assess those harms? Does hate speech lead to violence? Do racial, ethnic, and religious groups have…

and Educational Diversity Among Private Colleges and Universities," by Prof. James Weinstein (Arizona State).

Just published as part of the "Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech" symposium; here's the Introduction (the article is here): To what extent are free speech and open discussion being stifled on college campuses? This question inspires sharp disagreement. Where some see a serious problem, others deny that there is any…

Just published as part of the "Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech" symposium; here's the start of the Introduction and the Conclusion (the article is here): A lot of people praise free speech, but no one really wants it. We don't want people to be able to follow us down the…

From the Abstract; read the whole article here: In this paper, I undertake a qualitative exploration of how social regulation of speech works in practice on university campuses, and of the extent to which social regulation in practice affirms or undermines the stereotypes and caricatures that characterize the cancel-culture wars.…

And we can publish them much more quickly than most major law reviews would.

We'll give you an answer within 14 days, and we can publish them within several weeks, if you'd like.

Just published at 2 J. Free Speech L. 127 (2022), as part of the "Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech" symposium; here's the Abstract: In a recent opinion respecting denial of certiorari, Justice Clarence Thomas expressed concerns about the degree of control that a handful of social media platforms exercised over…

From the Introduction, which was just published: On March 19, 2022, Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law hosted a day-long symposium titled "Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech." The Symposium was funded by a gift from the Stanton Foundation, and was organized by Professors Ash Bhagwat (UC Davis),…

Our new Journal of Free Speech Law is faculty-edited, but we'd love to have help from students with proofreading and bluebooking. (We may also need some help with cite-checking, though so far we're having faculty have their own research assistants do that.) We publish both electronically and in print, and…