Clay Calvert
American lawyer and academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Clay Calvert is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Professor Emeritus, Brechner Eminent Scholar of Mass Communication Emeritus and former Director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, specializing in First Amendment Law. He was previously a professor at the Pennsylvania State University where he co-directed the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment. A member of the California State Bar Association, he has authored or co-authored more than 150 scholarly articles for law journals. He has also written several books dealing with the First Amendment, the most noteworthy being Voyeur Nation .
Clay Calvert's Published Works
Published Works
- Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, And Peering In Modern Culture (2000) (120)
- Hate speech and its harms: a communication theory perspective (1997) (77)
- Sex, Cell Phones, Privacy, and the First Amendment: When Children Become Child Pornographers and the Lolita Effect Undermines the Law (2009) (61)
- When Sex and Cell Phones Collide: Inside the Prosecution of a Teen Sexting Case (2009) (37)
- Counterspeech 2000: A New Look at the Old Remedy for "Bad" Speech (2000) (32)
- Revenge Porn and Freedom of Expression: Legislative Pushback to an Online Weapon of Emotional and Reputational Destruction (2014) (28)
- Video Voyeurism, Privacy and the Internet Exposing Peeping Toms in Cyberspace (2000) (14)
- Defining Public Concern after Snyder v. Phelps: A Pliable Standard Mingles with News Media Complicity (2012) (9)
- Gay Pornography and the First Amendment: Unique, First-Person Perspectives on Free Expression, Sexual Censorship, and Cultural Images (2007) (9)
- Rap Music and the True Threats Quagmire: When Does One Man’s Lyric Become Another’s Crime? (2019) (6)
- Fake News and the First Amendment: Reconciling a Disconnect Between Theory and Doctrine (2018) (6)
- The Jurisprudence of Transformation: Intellectual Incoherence and Doctrinal Murkiness Twenty Years After Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (2014) (5)
- To Defer or Not to Defer? Deference and Its Differential Impact on First Amendment Rights in the Roberts Court (2012) (5)
- Untangling Child Pornography From the Adult Entertainment Industry: An Inside Look at the Industry's Efforts to Protect Minors (2008) (4)
- Strict in Theory, But Feeble in Fact? First Amendment Strict Scrutiny and The Protection of Speech (2011) (4)
- The 2003 Legislative Assault on Violent Video Games: Judicial Realities and Regulatory Rhetoric (2004) (4)
- Bailing out the Print Newspaper Industry: A Not-So-Joking Public Policy and First Amendment Analysis (2008) (3)
- Regulating Cyberspace: Metaphor, Rhetoric, Reality, and the Framing of Legal Options (1998) (3)
- The Two-Step Evidentiary and Causation Quandary for Medium- Specific Laws Targeting Sexual and Violent Content: First Proving Harm and Injury to Silence Speech, then Proving Redress and Rehabilitation Through Censorship (2008) (3)
- Staring Death in the Face during Times of War: When Ethics, Law, and Self-Censorship in the News Media Hide the Morbidity of Authenticity (2012) (3)
- Fighting Words in the Era of Texts, IMs and E-Mails: Can a Disparaged Doctrine Be Resuscitated to Punish Cyber-Bullies? (2016) (3)
- The First Amendment, the Media and the Culture Wars: Eight Important Lessons From 2004 About Speech, Censorship, Science and Public Policy (2005) (3)
- Columbine fallout: The long-term effects on free expression take hold in public schools (2003) (3)
- Free Speech and the Right to Offend: Old Wars, New Battles, Different Media (2002) (3)
- Reconsidering Incitement, Tinker and The Heckler’s Veto on College Campuses: Richard Spencer and the Charlottesville Factor (2018) (2)
- Obscenity Prosecutions and the Bush Administration: The Inside Perspective of the Adult Entertainment Industry & Defense Attorney Louis Sirkin (2007) (2)
- The Irony of News Coverage: How the Media Harm Their Own First Amendment Rights (2001) (2)
- Bono, the Culture Wars, and a Profane Decision: The FCC's Reversal of Course on Indecency Determinations and Its New Path on Profanity (2004) (2)
- The First Amendment Right to Record Images of Police in Public Places: The Unreasonable Slipperiness of Reasonableness & Possible Paths Forward (2015) (2)
- The First Amendment and the Third Person: Perceptual Biases of Media Harms & Cries for Government Censorship (1998) (2)
- Dying for Privacy: Pitting Public Access Against Familial Interests In the Era of the Internet (2010) (2)
- Filtering Fake News through a Lens of Supreme Court Observations and Adages (2018) (2)
- Freedom of Thought, Offensive Fantasies and the Fundamental Human Right to Hold Deviant Ideas: Why the Seventh Circuit Got it Wrong in Doe v. City of Lafayette, Indiana (2005) (2)
- Qualified Immunity and the Trials and Tribulations of Online Student Speech: A Review of Cases and Controversies from 2009 (2009) (2)
- Smoking Out Big Tobacco: Some Lessons About Academic Freedom, The World Wide Web, Media Conglomeration, and Public Service Pedagogy from the Battle Over the Brown & Williamson Documents (1997) (2)
- Clashing conceptions of press duties: Public journalists and the courts (1997) (2)
- First Amendment Envelope Pushers: Revisiting the Incitement-to-Violence Test with Messrs. Brandenburg, Trump, & Spencer (2019) (2)
- Victories for Privacy and Losses for Journalism? FIve Privacy Controversies from 2004 and Their Policy Implications for the Future of Reportage (2005) (2)
- Misuse and Abuse of Morse v. Frederick by Lower Courts: Sretching the High Court's Ruling Too Far to Censor Student Expression (2008) (2)
- Conversion Therapy and Free Speech: A Doctrinal and Theoretical First Amendment Analysis (2014) (2)
- A War Over Words: An Inside Analysis and Examination of the Prosecution of the Red Rose Stories & Obscenity Law (2008) (2)
- Revisiting the Right to Offend Forty Years after Cohen v. California : One Case's Legacy on First Amendment Jurisprudence (2011) (2)
- Symposium: Tinker's Midlife Crisis: Tattered and Transgressed but Still Standing (2009) (2)
- Larry Flint Uncensored: A Dialogue with the Most Controversial Figure in First Amendment Jurisprudence (2001) (2)
- Free Speech & the Entertainment Software Association: An Inside Look at the Censorship Assault on the Video Game Industry (2006) (2)
- Voyeur War? The First Amendment,Privacy & Images From the War onTerrorism (2004) (2)
- Beyond Trademarks and Offense: Tam and the Justices’ Evolution on Free Speech (2017) (2)
- Content-Based Confusion and Panhandling: Muddling a Weathered First Amendment Doctrine Takes Its Toll on Society's Less Fortunate (2015) (2)
- Challenging the Wisdom of Solomon: The First Amendment and Military Recruitment on Campus (2004) (1)
- Clashing Values (1999) (1)
- Access to Information About Lethal Injections: A First Amendment Theory Perspective on Creating a New Constitutional Right (2015) (1)
- Regulating Sexual Images on the Web: Last Call for Miller Time, But New Issues Remain Untapped (2001) (1)
- All the News That's Fit to Steal: The First Amendment, a Free Press &(and) a Lagging Legislative Response (2005) (1)
- An Actual Problem in First Amendment Jurisprudence: Examining the Immediate Impact of Brown's Proof-of-Causation Doctrine on Free Speech and Its Compatibility with the Marketplace Theory (2013) (1)
- Book Review: The Unleashed Scandal: The End of Control in the Digital Age, by Bernhard Poerksen and Hanne Detel (2015) (1)
- The ‘Enticing Images’ Doctrine: an Emerging Principle in First Amendment Jurisprudence (2000) (1)
- Justice Samuel A. Alito's Lonely War Against Abhorrent, Low-Value (2011) (1)
- A Familial Privacy Right Over Death Images: Critiquing the Internet-Propelled Emergence of a Nascent Constitutional Right that Preserves Happy Memories and Emotions (2013) (1)
- Physicians, Firearms & Free Expression: Reconciling First Amendment Theory with Doctrinal Analysis regarding the Right to Pose Questions to Patients (2013) (1)
- Beyond Headlines & Holdings: Exploring Some Less Obvious Ramifications of the Supreme Court’s 2017 Free-Speech Rulings (2018) (1)
- Suing the Media, Supporting the First Amendment: The Paradox of Neville Johnson and the Battle for Privacy (2004) (1)
- Big Censorship in the Big House—A Quarter-Century After Turner v. Safley : Muting Movies, Music & Books Behind Bars (2012) (1)
- Media Liability for Violent Conduct: One Year Later—2002 Symposium Update (2003) (1)
- When First Amendment Principles Collide: Negative Political Advertising & the Demobilization of Democratic Self-Governance (1997) (1)
- Panel III: The Future of the Press and Privacy (2014) (1)
- When Cleansing Criminal History Clashes With the First Amendment and Online Journalism: Are Expungement Statutes Irrelevant in the Digital Age? (2010) (1)
- Reporting on Child Pornography: A First Amendment Defense for Viewing Illegal Images? (2000) (1)
- Revisiting the Voyeurism Value in the First Amendment: From the Sexually Sordid to the Details of Death (2004) (1)
- New millennium, same old speech: Technology changes, but the first amendment issues don't (1999) (1)
- Legal Lessons in On-Stage Character Development: Comedians, Characters, Cable Guys & Copyright Convolutions (2015) (1)
- The Legacy of Lords: The New Federal Crackdown On the Adult Entertainment Industry's Age-Verification and Record-Keeping Requirements (2007) (1)
- Underinclusivity and the First Amendment: The Legislative Right to Nibble at Problems After Williams-Yulee (2016) (1)
- Playing Politics or Protecting Children (2010) (1)
- A Pyrrhic Press Victory: Why Holding Richard Jewell Is a Public Figure Is Wrong and Harms Journalism (2002) (1)
- What Is News?: The FCC and the New Battle over the Regulation of Video New Releases (2008) (1)
- Youth-Produced Sexual Images, “Sexting,” and the Cellphone (2014) (1)
- The Privacy of Death: An Emergent Jurisprudence and Legal Rebuke to Media Exploitation and a Voyeuristic Culture (2006) (1)
- Mediated Images of Violence and The First Amendment: From Video Games to The Evening News (2005) (1)
- Inside the FBI Inspections of Adult Movie Company Age-Verification Records: A Dialogue with Special Agent Chuck Joyner (2008) (1)
- David Doe v. Goliath, Inc.: Judicial Ferment in 2009 for Business Plaintiffs Seeking the Identities of Anonymous Online Speakers, 43 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2009) (2009) (1)
- Merging Offensive-Speech Cases with Viewpoint-Discrimination Principles: The Immediate Impact of Matal v. Tam on Two Strands of First Amendment Jurisprudence (2019) (1)
- Playing Legislative Catch-up in 2010 with a Growing, High-Tech Phenomenon: Evolving Statutory Approaches for Addressing Teen Sexting (2011) (1)
- The Right to Record Images of Police in Public Places: Should Intent, Viewpoint, or Journalistic Status Determine First Amendment Protection? (2016) (1)
- The Government Speech Doctrine in Walker ’s Wake: Early Rifts and Reverberations on Free Speech, Viewpoint Discrimination, and Offensive Expression (2017) (1)
- Is Everything a Full-Blown First Amendment Case After Becerra and Janus ? Sorting out Standards of Scrutiny and Untangling "Speech as Speech" Cases from Disputes Incidentally Affecting Expression (2019) (0)
- Journalistic Malpractice: Suing Jayson Blair and the New York Times for Fraud and Negligence (2003) (0)
- The Parents Television Council Uncensored: An Inside Look at the Watchdog of the Public Airwaves And the War on Indecency With Its President, Tim Winter (2011) (0)
- Support Our [Dead] Troops: Sacrificing Political Expression Rights for Familial Control over Names and Likenesses (2008) (0)
- Protecting the Cellular Citizen-Critic: The State of Political Speech from Sullivan to Popa (2001) (0)
- Book Review: Dirty Words & Filthy Pictures: Film and the First Amendment by Jeremy Geltzer (2016) (0)
- Troll Storms and Tort Liability for Speech Urging Action by Others: A First Amendment Analysis and An Initial Step Toward A Federal Rule (2020) (0)
- Weaponizing Proof of Harm in First Amendment Cases: When Scientific Evidence and Deference to the Views of Professional Associations Collide in the Battle Against Conversion Therapy (2022) (0)
- The Power of Public Concern and First Amendment Values: Insulating Speech in Sports and Entertainment from Tort Liability for Others' Actions (2022) (0)
- Indecency Four Years After Fox Television Stations: From Big Papi to a Porn Star, An Egregious Mess at the FCC Continues (2017) (0)
- Can the Undue-Burden Standard add Clarity and Rigor to Intermediate Scrutiny in First Amendment Jurisprudence? A Proposal Cutting Across Constitutional Domains for Time, Place & Manner Regulations (2017) (0)
- Voyeurism and Exhibitionism (2014) (0)
- Defending Larry Flynt: Why Attacking Flynt's Outing of Sexual Affairs is Misguided (1999) (0)
- Protecting the Public from Itself: Paternalism and Irony in Defining Newsworthiness (2016) (0)
- “Defamation Live”: The Confusing Legal Landscape of Republication in Live Broadcasting and a Call for a “Breaking News Doctrine” (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps: Community, Not Controversy by Ronald Bishop With Morgan Dudkewitz, Alissa Falcone, and Renee Daggett (2016) (0)
- Neither Tinker, nor Hazelwood, nor Fraser, Nor Morse: Why Violent Student Assignments Represent a Unique First Amendment Challenge (2020) (0)
- Book Review: A Right to Offend: Free Expression in the Twenty-First Century, by Brian Winston (2013) (0)
- The Open Mic, Unplugged: Challenges to Viewpoint-Based Constraints on Public-Comment Periods (2018) (0)
- Book Review: Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, by Lisa Gitelman (2015) (0)
- Table of Contents (2014) (0)
- Book Review: The FBI’s Obscene File: J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau’s Crusade against Smut, by Douglas M. Charles (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences, by Michael Billig (2014) (0)
- Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress & The Hulk Hogan Sex Tape: Examining a Forgotten Cause of Action in Bollea v. Gawker Media , the Gap It Reveals in IIED’s Constitutionalization, and A Path Forward for Revenge Porn Victims (2017) (0)
- Suing the News Media in the Age of Tabloid Journalism: L. Lin Wood and the Battle for Accountability (2005) (0)
- Could Wild Horses Drag Access Away From Courtrooms? Expanding First Amendment Rights to New Pastures (2013) (0)
- Of Burning Houses and Roasting Pigs: Why Butler V. Michigan Remains a Key Free Speech Victory More Than a Half-Century Later (2012) (0)
- Iancu v. Brunetti’s Impact on First Amendment Law: Viewpoint Discrimination, Modes of Offensive Expression, Proportionality and Profanity (2019) (0)
- The "True Threat" to Cyberspace: Shredding the First Amendment for Faceless Fears (1999) (0)
- Payola, Pundits, and the Press: Weighing the Pros and Cons of FCC Regulation (2005) (0)
- Book Review: Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge, by Marjorie Heins (2013) (0)
- Freeway Porn & The Signs of Sign: Sex, Cigarettes and Censorship of Billboards (2010) (0)
- The End of Forum Shopping in Internet Obscenity Cases? The Ramifications of the Ninth Circuit’s Groundbreaking Understanding of Community Standards in Cyberspace (2010) (0)
- Imus, Indecency, Violence & (and) Vulgarity: Why the FCC Must Not Expand Its Authority Over Content (2007) (0)
- Toxic Television, Editorial Discretion, & (and) the Public Interest: A Rocky Mountain Low (1998) (0)
- Curing the First Amendment Scrutiny Muddle Through a Breyer-Based Blend Up? Toward a Less Categorical, More Values-Oriented Approach for Selecting Standards of Judicial Review (2021) (0)
- Video Games and the Right of Publicity (2016) (0)
- Copyright in Inanimate Characters: The Disturbing Proliferation of Microworks and the Negative Effects on Copyright and Free Expression (2016) (0)
- Know Your Audience: Risky Speech At The Intersection Of Meaning And Value In First Amendment Jurisprudence (2015) (0)
- Stumbling Down Tobacco Road: Media Self-Censorship and Corporate Capitulation in the War on the Cigarette Industry (1996) (0)
- The Perplexing Problem of Child Modeling Web Sites: Quasi-Child Pornography and Calls for New Legislation (2004) (0)
- Book Review: Privacy in the New Media Age, by Jon L. Mills (2015) (0)
- The First Amendment and Speech Urging Suicide: Lessons from the Case of Michelle Carter and the Need to Expand Brandenburg's Application (2019) (0)
- The French newspaper : its character, style and contents (0)
- Mass Media Law 18th Edition (2016) (0)
- Press Coverage of the JonBenét Ramsey Murder and Its Legal Implications: A Dialogue with John and Patsy Ramsey and Their Attorney, L. Lin Wood (2002) (0)
- Too Narrow of a Holding? How - and Perhaps Why - Chief Justice John Roberts turned Snyder v. Phelps into an Easy Case (2012) (0)
- Legislating the First Amendment: A Trio of Recommendations for Lawmakers Targeting Free Expression (2017) (0)
- Contributors (2006) (0)
- Counterspeech, Cosby, and Libel Law: Some Lessons About “Pure Opinion” & Resuscitating the Self-Defense Privilege (2017) (0)
- Sifting through the Wreckage of ABC Reportage: Little Victories, Big Defeats & (and) Unbridled Media Arrogance (1997) (0)
- Shared Goals in an Undergraduate Communication Curriculum: Using Q Methodology to Identify Community Expectations (1994) (0)
- Book Review: The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First Amendment and the Censor’s Dilemma, by Robert Corn-Revere (2021) (0)
- The Anthrax Investigation: A Newsgathering and Privacy Hypothetical (2002) (0)
- Wither Zauderer, Blossom Heightened Scrutiny? How the Supreme Court’s 2018 Rulings in Becerra and Janus Exacerbate Problems with Compelled-Speech Jurisprudence (2019) (0)
- Bylines behind Bars: Fame, Frustration and First Amendment Freedom (2007) (0)
- Dissent, Disagreement and Doctrinal Disarray: Free Expression and the Roberts Court in 2020 (2020) (0)
- Book Review: Reporting Always: Writings From The New Yorker by Lillian Ross (2016) (0)
- Meiklejohn, Monica, & Mutilation of the Thinking Process (1999) (0)
- Book Review: Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World, by Kembrew McLeod (2014) (0)
- Social Science, Media Effects & The Supreme Court: Is Communication Research Relevant After ? (2012) (0)
- Certifying Questions in First Amendment Cases: Free Speech, Statutory Ambiguity, and Definitive Interpretations (2019) (0)
- Free Speech, Fleeting Expletives, and the Causation Quagmire: Was Justice Scalia Wrong in Fox Television Stations? (2010) (0)
- The State of Research on Communication and First Amendment Law in Traditional Law Journals: An Evaluative and Instructional Take (2020) (0)
- Public Concern and Outrageous Speech: Testing the Inconstant Boundaries of IIED and The First Amendment Three Years After Snyder v. Phelps (2014) (0)
- Testing the First Amendment Validity of Laws Banning Sexual Orientation Change Efforts on Minors: What Level of Scrutiny Applies after Becerra and Does a Proportionality Approach Provide a Solution? (2020) (0)
- Selecting Scrutiny in Compelled-Speech Cases Involving Non-Commercial Expression: The Formulaic Landscape of a Strict Scrutiny World After Becerra and Janus, and a First Amendment Interests-and-Values Alternative (2020) (0)
- Book Review: The First Freedoms and America’s Culture of Innovation: The Constitutional Foundations of the Aspirational Society, by Narain D. Batra (2014) (0)
- Newsgathering Takes Flight in Choppy Skies: Legal Obstacles Affecting Journalistic Drone Use (2016) (0)
- Contextual Cues to Meaning in Communications Law and First Amendment Jurisprudence: True Threats and Beyond (2019) (0)
- Defending the First in the Ninth: Judge Alex Kozinski and the Freedoms of Speech and Press (2003) (0)
- Book Review (2006) (0)
- Book Review: What’s Wrong With the First Amendment?, by Steven H. Shiffrin (2017) (0)
- Professional Standards and the First Amendment in Higher Education: When Institutional Academic Freedom Collides with Student Speech Rights (2018) (0)
- Reining in Internet-Age Expansion of Exemption 7(C): Towards a Tort Law Approach for Ferreting out Legitimate Privacy Concerns and Unwarranted Intrusions Under FOIA (2017) (0)
- MIXED MESSAGES, MUDDLED MEANINGS, DRUNK DICKS, AND BOOBIES BRACELETS: SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE STUDENT SPEECH AND THE NEED TO OVERRULE OR RADICALLY REFASHION FRASER (2013) (0)
- Mass Media Law -17/E. (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes (2016) (0)
- Bag Men and the Ghost of Richard Jewell: Some Legal and Ethical Lessons about Implied Defamation, Headlines, and Reporting on Breaking Criminal Activity from Barhoum v. NYP Holdings (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau’s Image, by Matthew Cecil (2014) (0)
- Fissures, Fractures & Doctrinal Drifts: Paying the Price in First Amendment Jurisprudence for a Half Decade of Avoidance, Minimalism & Partisanship (2016) (0)
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