Keywords
criminal law; symposium; communications law; international law; first amendment
Abstract
Traditional free speech doctrine is inadequate to account for modern terrorist speech. Unprotected threats and substantially protected lawful advocacy are not mutually exclusive. This Article proposes recognizing a new hybrid category of speech called “terrorizing advocacy.” This is a type of traditionally protected public advocacy of unlawful conduct that simultaneously exhibits the unprotected pathologies of a true threat. This Article explains why this new category confounds existing First Amendment doctrine and details a proposed model for how the doctrine should be reshaped.
Recommended Citation
Martin H. Redish and Matthew Fisher,
Terrorizing Advocacy and the First Amendment: Free Expression and the Fallacy of Mutual Exclusivity,
86 Fordham L. Rev. 565
(2017).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol86/iss2/10
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