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"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer is a personal and scholarly examination of the violent confrontations in Charlottesville and the University of Virginia campus in the summer of 2017, focusing on the clash between free speech and protection of civil rights and human dignity"--

Lawyers advertise to attract clients. Politicians advertise to attract voters. Businesses advertise to attract customers. All of these advertisers advertise with a common subtext: choose me, because I'm better than the rest. Hire me, vote for me, buy my product, and good things will happen. The message may be blunt, explicit, direct, linear. But often it is not. The bludgeon is not the tool of choice in modem mass advertising. The message, more commonly, is presented with subtlety, often merely suggested, often presented with indirection, irony, camp, or comedy. Information as such is not the point. The stuff of modern advertising is not information, but imagery. Advertisers sell imagery. The honest politician, compassionate for the common man and tough as nails on crime. The enterprising business, primed for the technologies of the new millennium, creative, responsive, ready and able to serve the customer's needs. And the lawyer, tough and aggressive, able to stand up to insurance companies and fight for the rights of the injured and wronged.

In this Allen Chair Symposium issue of the University of Richmond Law Review, three outstanding scholars have written provocative pieces on the First Amendment. Professor John Nowak engages in an exercise of constitutional futurism, "'remembering the future" to propose a number of relatively radical alterations of First Amendment doctrine to achieve what he argues should be the appropriate balance between freedom of speech and fair trials in "cyber world." Professor Paul Carrington, arguing that a communitarian right of citizens to self-government is the principal that ought to animate our politics and law, has launched a broadside indictment against contemporary First Amendment doctrine, attacking an eclectic range of current doctrines, including obscenity, offensive speech, separation of church and state, symbolic speech, forced speech, freedom of association, commercial advertising, libel, and campaign finance. Professor C. Thomas Dienes, critiquing decisions that have approved of limitations on the speech of lawyers and other participants in trials, offers a spirited argument that such restraints are in tension

"The U.S. Supreme Court is more important than ever in the lives of Americans. Its politicization, however, has hijacked its mission to provide equal justice under law. This book explains how politics, polarization and worldview - factors that affect everyone - have adversely influenced the Court and thus the nation"--