Every indexed document

the First Amendment has not become ossified with age. It has changed with the times

I believe) of defaming others. I have been informally charged with inciting war crimes

I’ve stood up for an important principle: the right of the individual

and opression must be stopped in the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

people I hate and people I don’t give a damn about—good guys

manner and mode of expression from films to plays

but the meaning of these words has undergone dramatic transformation over the past half century. The major reason has been the rapid change in the manner by which speech is transmitted. Technology has altered the sound and look of freedom o...

all the time. I defended other trouble-makers. I questioned everything and everybody. I may have had a Fifth Amendment right to “remain silent

I knew that I was qualified to teach theoretical subjects

I learn a great deal from my students. My classroom is truly a marketplace of ideas. This should not be surprising

000 students over my half century career as a law professor. Among the students I have taught

teaching the students about international tribunals and treaties. The source of problems confronted today are not decided by international law or international courts. They are transnational

with more work experience. They come to the classroom with firm

about a quarter of the class of racial and ethnic minorities

write and speak—even after my active teaching career at Harvard comes to an end. I am a teacher first and foremost. All of my work—classroom pedagogy

where there are few articulated standards and little public accountability. Or perhaps it was my focus on prediction and prevention that sensitized me to the more subtle issue of lack of visible standards and criteria. Whichever was the chi...

accountability and public discourse. What is needed

which eschews too much concentration of power. American sovereignty

whenever states (or state-like institutions) take actions that affect the rights of individuals whether these actions are preventive or reactive in nature. This need may seem obvious

articles and classes dealt in large part with the substantive and procedural issues growing out of prediction and prevention of harmful conduct—the movement we are experiencing toward “the preventive state”—and the jurisprudential problems....