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Does a Move To Greater Internationalism Jeopardize American Free Speech Values?

By ADF Alliance Alert

Eugene Volokh writes at the Volokh Conspiracy: "Well, let's listen to Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, now nominated to be the Legal Advisor to the State Department, in his On American Exceptionalism, 55 Stan. L. Rev. 1479 (2003) . . . Maybe I'm missing something -- Prof. Koh's discussion of just how the Court can "moderate ... conflicts" between First Amendment law and foreign countries that disapprove of American free speech on the Internet is rather vague here. But it sounds to me quite a bit like the predictions that Prof. Peter Spiro, another internationalist legal scholar, made about how international norms could reduce the scope of American constitutional rights . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).