The First Amendment principle that we must protect the thought we hate, as Justice Holmes called it, and that in america, speech can only be banned if its intended to and likely to cause imminent violence. Thats the principle that comes the brandenburg case. It was articulated by brandeis in witney, and it makes america, as Salman Rushdie said the most speech protective country in the world. And on our first panel, were going to explore the history of that shining idea with three of americas greatest history wins of freedom of speech. And im so excited for the conversation we have, jake and martin gamma from the future of free speech project, akhil amar from yale law school, steve solomon from nyu and jacob rosenbaum. I want jump right in and first say that your book free speech a history from socrates to social media, i think is the clearest and best history of the evolution of the idea that ive read and i want to begin by asking you, where did it come from . The phrase that we must h
Speech can only be banned if its intended to and likely to cause imminent violence. Thats the principle that comes the brandenburg case. It was articulated by brandeis in witney, and it makes america, as Salman Rushdie said the most speech protective country in the world. And on our first panel, were going to explore the history of that shining idea with three of americas greatest history wins of freedom of speech. And im so excited for the conversation we have, jake and martin gamma from the future of free speech project, akhil amar from yale law school, steve solomon from nyu and jacob rosenbaum. I want jump right in and first say that your book free speech a history from socrates to social media, i think is the clearest and best history of the evolution of the idea that ive read and i want to begin by asking you, where did it come from . The phrase that we must have the freedom to speak as we will and think as we speak you teach came from tacitus, the roman historian, and it was the
Cause imminent violence. Thats the principle that comes the brandenburg case. It was articulated by brandeis in witney, and it makes america, as Salman Rushdie said the most speech protective country in the world. And on our first panel, were going to explore the history of that shining idea with three of americas greatest history wins of freedom of speech. And im so excited for the conversation we have, jake and martin gamma from the future of free speech project, akhil amar from yale law school, steve solomon from nyu and jacob rosenbaum. I want jump right in and first say that your book free speech a history from socrates to social media, i think is the clearest and best history of the evolution of the idea that ive read and i want to begin by asking you, where did it come from . The phrase that we must have the freedom to speak as we will and think as we speak you teach came from tacitus, the roman historian, and it was then picked up by spinoza i learned from your book and then ar
At the end of his extraordinary with suzanne and also Salman Rushdie challenged us to defend the First Amendment principle that we must protect the thought we hate, as Justice Holmes called it, and that in america, speech can only be banned if its intended to and likely to cause imminent violence. Thats the principle that comes the brandenburg case. It was articulated by brandeis in witney, and it makes america, as Salman Rushdie said the most speech protective country in the world. And on our first panel, were going to explore the history of that shining idea with three of americas greatest history wins of freedom of speech. And im so excited for the conversation we have, jake and martin gamma from the future of free speech project, akhil amar from yale law school, steve solomon from nyu and jacob rosenbaum. I want jump right in and first say that your book free speech a history from socrates to social media, i think is the clearest and best history of the evolution of the idea that i
Only the official photographer is permitted to take photographs. It is my pleasure to introduce Justice Stephen breyer. He has had a distinguished career, starting as a law clerk to goldberg and going on to have many important positions in the department of justice and working for the Senate Judiciary committee. In 1980, president carter appointed him to the first appeals and hef served 14 years and was the chief judge of that court. Clinton tapped him to be a justice here and he turned out to be one of six people who, during their career, served both as a law clerk at this court and asked a justice at this court. When he got here, he said at the sat at the far end of the bench for 11 years. It was the secondlongest time that anybody has sat as the most junior justice for the long a period. Now, he has had 11 more years and he has moved around on the bench. We are pleased to have him here tonight to host this evenings lecture. Justice breyer. [applause] Justice Breyer i think i missed