Research Guides: First Amendment and Free Speech: Books and Treatises

Reference Books and Treatises

For a more comprehensive list of legal treatises available at UCI on the First Amendement, please see the UCI Law Library's Research Guide on Legal Treatises: First Amendment

First Amendment Encyclopedia 
Includes articles on court cases, people, concepts and legal terms, laws and proposed laws and issues related to the First Amendment
Oxford Handbook of the US Constitution: Chapter 30 - Free Speech and Free Press
Chapter from Oxford Handbook examining free speech and press, with an emphasis on legal doctrine
Freedom of Speech: A Reference Guide to the US Constitution
Concise legal treatise on the First Amendment
Department of Justice Guide to the Freedom of Information Act
Online comprehensive legal treatise on the Freedom of Information Act

Selected Books

The following are a few books on Free Speech or Academic Freedom:

Free Speech on Campus by Erwin Chemerinsky; Howard Gillman
ISBN: 9780300226560
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Written by UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman and former UCI School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, this book provides the background necessary to understanding the importance of free speech on campus and offers clear prescriptions for what colleges can and can't do when dealing with free speech controversies.
Freedom of Speech on Campus by Eamon Doyle (Editor)
ISBN: 9781534503090
Publication Date: 2018-07-30
Compilations of essays on related to freedom of speech on college campuses. From the "Current Controversies" series by Greenhaven Press.
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate by Anthony Lewis
ISBN: 9780465012930
Publication Date: 2008-03-03
Overview of the historical development of rights afforded by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Anthony Lewis.
Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom by Joan Wallach Scott
ISBN: 9780231548939
Publication Date: 2019-01-14
This book presents a series of essays by the historian Joan Wallach Scott that explore the history and theory of academic freedom and the value of critical inquiry today.

Find other books

There are many other books in UC Library Search related to Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Academic Freedom. Major subject headings or keywords include the following:

Free speech
Academic freedom
Freedom of speech
Freedom of press
Intellectual freedom
United States Constitution 1st Amendment
Freedom of expression -- United States