Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment

It is a book. I will read it.

This is an excellent primer on the history of one of our foundational rights as human beings and Americans. It really opened my eyes to just how much the rights of individuals in our nation have historically taken second place to the needs of "corporations" and just how much this particular right is still endangered, not just by the judiciary, but more importantly by an uneducated and divisive American public.

Solid and relatively concise work which we read in my law class at UC Berkeley.

Purchased for a law class...very well written and presented!

EXCELLENT book. Not dry at all. It tells a compelling and crucial story about the evolution of the freedom of press and speech in the U.S.

interesting

had to order for a journalism ethics class.

Its okay. I had to get this book for my Communications Law class. It reads easier than most law books

A magnificent insight into one of the Supreme Court’s bedrock First Amendment decisions: New York Times v Sullivan.The book brilliantly elucidates the genesis of the case, the severe burdens placed on the national press, imposed by vexatious libel suits in the segregated South, which led to the Court’s reordering of First Amendment freedoms for speech and press, in sharply limiting the scope of libel actions by public officials for criticism of their conduct. The book also explores the paradoxes of the Sullivan rule, the unanswered questions the Supreme Court had to wrestle with in the subsequent years (does it apply to public figures? private individuals? If the speech in question is of public import, what are the consequences irrespective of the individual(s) targeted by the speech? Can libel damages be constitutionally limited?).For students of the First Amendment, this is an indispensable book on - perhaps - the crown jewel in the High Court’s First Amendment jurisprudence.