Explores the three-way relationship between the idea of freedom of speech, the law of crimes, and the many uses of language, with particular reference to US constitutional law and the First Amendment.

In this book, Greenawalt explores the three-way relationship between the idea of freedom of speech, the law of crimes, and the many uses of language.

So long as someone like Kent Greenawalt is at the scales there is no reason to fear that free speech will be balanced lightly away; Greenawalt's earnest concern for free speech shines through in every case he considers.