Free Speech Law and the Pornography Debate

Lynn Mills Eckert is associate professor of political science at Marist College.

Part I - Sociology of Knowledge - “We Already Regulate Pornography for Gender-Based Reasons without Acknowledging It”

Chapter 1 - Regulating Pornography: Comparing the Zoning Approach and Nude Dancing Cases to Hudnut

Chapter 2 - Language Games and the Zoning and Nude Dancing Cases

Part II - The Legal Landscape that Acts to Exclude Knowledge Claims about Pornography

Chapter 3 - Categories and Epistemic Gatekeeping in Free Speech Jurisprudence

Chapter 4 - A Critique of the Content-Neutrality Principle

Chapter 5 - Proving Pornography’s Harms - Where Speech Act Theory, Causality, and the Performative Fall Short

Chapter 6 - Discursive Effects: A Different Framework to Understand the Harm from Speech

Part III - Liberal Law and a New Theory of Harm

Chapter 7 - Discursive Effects and Liberal Law

Chapter 8 - Reconsidering the tension between Liberty and Equality