Critical Approaches to the First Amendment

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The outline of Cris Demaske's lecture on Critical Approaches to the First Amendment

 

A. Critical Perspectives vs. Liberal Traditional
I. The general debate

II. What does "Critical Approaches" mean?

• Defining critical
• Difference between critical and liberal
• Not all critical approaches are created equal

III. Liberal Assumptions

IV. Critical Assumptions

B. Critical Legal Studies

• What is CLS?
• Sunstein on CLS
• Media ownership and access issues

D. Critical Race Theory

• What is CRT?
• The CRT perspective – Delgado, Matsuda, and Lawrence
• Hate speech, campus codes, R.A.V. and other issues

E. Feminist Theory

• What is Feminism? Approaches to the 1st Amendment – MacKinnon, Strossen and West
• Pornography, power and other speech issues

F. Wrap Up