Issue Papers

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Policy Views

• No. 1: "Media Consolidation, Regulation, and the Road Ahead" by Richard T. Kaplar and Patrick D. Maines
• No. 2: "Two-Year Moratorium on Drug Advertising Raises Constitutional Red Flags " by Robert Corn-Revere, Esq.
• No. 3: "Television Violence and Aggression: Setting the Record Straight" by Jonathan L. Freedman, Ph.D.

Perspectives: First Amendment Analyses of Communications Policy Issues

• No. 1: "How the Government’s Crackdown on Broadcasting Threatens Emma Thompson and All of Us" by Bruce W. Sanford and Mark I. Bailen
• No. 2: "The Soul of the Censor: The FCC Attacks Television Violence" by Laurence H. Winer
• No. 3: "Reflections of a First Amendment Advocate" by Floyd Abrams
• No. 4: "Missing In Action" by Patrick D. Maines
• No. 5: "The New Media and the First Amendment: Where Are the Champions?" by Richard T. Kaplar

Cornerstone Papers: A Series of Occasional Essays on the First Amendment

• No. 1: "Testing Free Speech in the Crucible of the Real World" by Robert S. Peck
• No. 2: "Keeping the First Amendment Alive" by Nat Hentoff
• No. 3: "The Courts:Keeping Speech Free in Troubled Times" by John Corry
• No. 4: "America's Free Press: Now More Than Ever" by Barbara Cochran
• No. 5: "Good Intentions/Bad Results: The FCC and the Law of Unintended Consequences" by Richard E. Wiley
• No. 6: "Global Free Expression and the Internet: Three Modest Goals for American Media" by Kurt Wimmer