About the seminar
This seminar will discuss a work in progress entitled “Regulating Disinformation Consistent Core Democratic Free Speech Values: A Comparative Analysis.” As it now stands, the draft focuses on the extraordinarily stringent First Amendment constraints on the ability of government in the United States to prohibit disinformation in public discourse. Because the completed work will be a comparative study, James Weinstein is particularly interested in the seminar participants’ view of these First Amendment limitations and how they compare to constraints on disinformation imposed by the Australian Constitution’s implied freedom of political communication.
About the speaker
James Weinstein
Dan Cracchiolo Chair in Constitutional Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
James Weinstein is the Dan Cracchiolo Chair in Constitutional Law in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, a faculty fellow in the Center for Law, Science and Innovation at Arizona State University and an associate fellow with the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Weinstein's areas of academic interest are Constitutional Law, especially Free Speech, as well as Jurisprudence and Legal History. He is co-editor of Extreme Speech and Democracy (Oxford University Press 2009, paperback edition 2010); the author of "Hate Speech, Pornography and the Radical Attack on Free Speech Doctrine" (Westview Press 1999); and has written numerous articles in law review symposia on a variety of free speech topics, including: free speech theory, obscenity doctrine, institutional review boards, commercial speech, database protection, campaign finance reform, the relationship between free speech and other constitutional rights, hate crimes, campus speech codes, and online harassment. He is currently engaged in a comparative study of disinformation regulation. Professor Weinstein has litigated several significant free speech cases, primarily on behalf of Arizona Civil Liberties Union.
During law school, he was a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Board of Officers. After graduating, he served as a law clerk to James R. Browning, Chief Judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and then practiced civil litigation in Los Angeles for several years before joining the ASU law faculty in 1986.
