First Amendment
Text & Historical Materials
- U.S.
Constitution: Analysis and Interpretation
- Complete text with Annotations of Cases Decided by the U.S. Supreme Court
and Historical Notes; prepared by the Congressional Research Service of the
Library of Congress.
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- U.S.
Congressional Documents & Debates 1774-1873
- Provided by the Law Library of Congress.
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- A Chronology of U.S.
Historical Documents
- Provided by the University of Oklahoma Law Center.
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- Freedom
of Expression: Speech and Press
- Annotations to the Bill of Rights provided by FindLaw.
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Web Resources
Freedom of Speech & Press
- First
Amendment Law Materials
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Compiled by Cornell's Legal Information Institute.
A
Journalist's Guide to the Federal Courts- A Guide by the
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is intended to assist reporters
assigned to court coverage and includes information about key players and
potential interview sources for federal district and appellate courts.
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- A non-profit, non-partisan organization, "dedicated to the global
defense of press freedom".
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"The Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP), founded in 2000,
provides research and analysis on difficult censorship issues, and seeks free
speech-friendly solutions to the concerns that drive censorship campaigns."
- Freedominfo.org
- "This site is a one-stop portal that describes best practices,
consolidates lessons learned, explains campaign strategies and tactics, and
links the efforts of freedom of information advocates around the world."
- Newsroom Law Blog
- The Newsroom Law Blog is a website that examines legal issues facing
broadcast and print newsrooms.
- On
Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- From Bartleby Library Great Books Online
- Online Policy Group
- "a nonprofit organization dedicated to online policy research, outreach,
and action on issues such as access, privacy, digital defamation, and the
digital divide. Additionally, it focuses on Internet participants' civil
liberties and human rights, like access, privacy, safety, and serving schools,
libraries, disabled, elderly, youth, women, and sexual, gender, and ethnic
minorities."
Intellectual
Freedom Issues
Epic.org: Electronic Privacy Information
Center
Banned
Books Online
John Locke, Second
Treaties on Civil Government
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Freedom of Information
- Freedom of Information Act Electronic
Reading Room
- The FBI's electronic Reading Room displays frequently requested documents
released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Freedom of Information Center
(Univ. of Missouri)
The Brechner Center for Freedom of
Information
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U.S. Supreme Court Opinions
Speech & Press
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Recent Supreme Court Decisions on Freedom of the Press
- Provided by Cornell University's Legal Information Institute.
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- Oyez Project Freedom of the Press
- U.S. Supreme Court
Opinions
- Full text of opinions and some RealAudio of oral arguments. Hosted by
Northwestern University.
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Lower Courts & State Courts
New First Amendment Cases
from The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
International Human Rights
Courts and Documents
- European Court of Human Rights
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Organizations Devoted to
Freedom of Speech & Press
Thomas Jefferson Center for
the Protection of Free Expression
First Amendment
Center at Vanderbilt University Free
Expression Network
A network of organizations. Provides up-to-date news.
Freedom Forum
Institute for First
Amendment Studies
National Freedom of Information
Coalition
Freedom of Information
Foundation of Texas
- American Civil Liberties
Union
- Free
Speech News
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of
the Press
2007 Annual Press
Freedom Survey: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press states that
the survey, released February 1, 2007, "reports on press freedom in 98
countries and includes the main violations of journalists' rights in 2006 and
regional aspects of media and Internet freedom... The report lists the worst
violations in repressive countries...but also looks at democracies, where
progress needs to be made too." Please follow link to survey.
Electronic Frontiers Australia
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Media Law
Bulletin of the
Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law
Center for Digital
Democracy
FAIR: Media and Accuracy in
Reporting
Legal Information Institute: Communications
Law
Media Law Resource Center
Media
Law Libraryfrom International Journalists' Network
Moscow Media Law &
Policy Center
The News Media & the Law
published byThe Reporters Committee
for Freedom of the Press
Silha Center for the Study
of Media Law & Ethics University of Minnesota
Virtual Institute of Information
Telecommunications, Cybercommunications, and Mass Media Research at Columbia
University
"Can We Tape?" http://www.rcfp.org/taping/
A Practical Guide to Taping Phone Calls and In-Person Conversations in the 50
States and D.C. Produced by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of
the Press for use by journalists.
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