Steven J. Heyman’s Free Speech & Human Dignity

Steven J. Heyman’s new book Free Speech & Human Dignity (Yale, 2007) attempts to offer a coherent, rights-based theory of the First Amendment in analyzing some of the important issues facing our society today. Professor Heyman, who teaches at Chicago-Kent College of Law, examines issues of privacy law, hate speech, and pornography–difficult questions on which reasonable persons can and do differ–in an attempt to reconcile competing interests. Worth a look, and worth some space on the First Amendment bookshelf.