When Freedom Speaks – The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of Our First Amendment Right

Lynn Levine Greenky is teaching professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies. She started her career as an attorney admitted to the New York State Bar, and uses her legal training and expertise to teach presentation, advocacy, and argumentation.

• IntroductionChapter One: A History LessonChapter Two: Foundations and Building BlocksChapter Three: The Road to the Supreme CourtChapter Four: Symbolically SpeakingChapter Five: The Troubling Sound of SilenceChapter Six: Politically SpeakingChapter Seven: Warning! Dangerous Speech AheadChapter Eight: Advocacy Vs Incitement?Chapter Nine: Sticks and Stones and Words That HarmChapter Ten: What the #@*%! School Speech, Campus Codes, and Cancel CultureChapter Eleven: Public SpacesChapter Twelve: The Message and the MediumChapter Thirteen: When Speech OffendsChapter Fourteen: The Language of MoneyChapter Fifteen: When Speech and Faith CollideConclusionTable of CasesWorks CitedEndnotesSuggestions for Further Reading

"Greenky’s easy-to-read primer offers general readers and students a telling history and framework for understanding the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodologies courts commonly use to negotiate clashing and competing constitutional values and individual rights to free speech."