Samantha Barbas is Professor of Law and Aliber Family Chair at the University of Iowa College of Law, specializing in legal history and First Amendment law. She is the author of seven previous books on mass media and free speech history, including Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan.
“In most other countries, there are laws, criminal laws that prohibit the expression of racial hatred or incitement to racial hatred,” says Samantha Barbas, author of Hate Speech: The Legal and Cultural History...
The 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan protected the civil rights movement, established the “actual malice” standard, and is the basis for modern American libel law. But in recent years, criticism of...
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