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Professor
Seth F. Kreimer |
With the
integration of high technology into our culture, fundamental precepts
of the law have been questioned and brought to the fore. In the seminar
“The First Amendment in the 21st Century” Seth F. Kreimer Professor
of Law addresses how discussion of the First Amendment’s guarantees
of freedom of speech, press and assembly has, during the second half of
the 20th century, occupied a central place in the Supreme Court’s practice
of judicial review. As the century closed, the information age brought
new urgency to some elements of the discussion, and threatened to transform
others. Kreimer’s seminar examines the development of the federal doctrines
protecting freedom of expression, and the ways in which these doctrines
are likely to occupy the courts in the next decade. Class discussion includes
problems of incitement and threats (e.g. the Nuremberg Files); compelled
speech; anonymity; libel; obscenity; emotionally abusive speech; intellectual
property; commercial speech; privacy; and media structure.
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Professor
C. Edwin Baker |
The relationship
between First Amendment matters and communi-cations policy is an intimate
one. Law professor C. Edwin Baker Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor
of Law is a nationally known authority in constitutional law and mass
media policy. A passionate proponent of freedom of individual speech,
he also believes that government ought to regulate certain aspects of
media and social policy. His work of recent years on media policy reflects
an expansive view of the multimedia nature of the global generation at
the millennium.
“I draw
heavily on political philosophy, economics, and communication scholarship,”
Baker said of his recent influences, including consultations with Oscar
Gandy, professor at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication. Baker’s
new book on the subject – The Relation of Media, Markets, and Democracy
– was published by Cambridge University Press this year.
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Professor
Friedrich K. Kübler
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Professor of
Law Friedrich K. Kübler has held an appointment with Penn Law since
1985. He spends half the year at Penn, and the remainder of the year in
Germany where he teaches law, and practices at Clifford Chance. He offers
a unique bicultural perspective in the seminar he teaches, “Comparative
Mass Communications Law.” 
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