Managed Dissent

The Law of Public Protest

Timothy Zick (Williams & Mary Law School, Virginia)

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English

Cambridge University Press
11 May 2023

Constitution: government & the state; Political structures: democracy; Pressure groups & lobbying; Constitutional & administrative law; Human rights & civil liberties law

Series: Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

The mass street demonstrations that followed the 2020 police murder of George Floyd were perhaps the largest in American history. These events confirmed that even in a digital era, people rely on public dissent to communicate grievances, change public discourse, and stand in collective solidarity with others. However, the demonstrations also showed that the laws surrounding public protest make public contention more dangerous, more costly, and less effective. Police fired tear gas into peaceful crowds, used physical force against compliant demonstrators, imposed broad curfews, limited the places where protesters could assemble, and abused 'unlawful assembly' and other public disorder laws. These and other pathologies epitomize a system in which public protest is tightly constrained in the name of public order. Managed Dissent argues that in order to preserve the venerable tradition of public protest in the US, we must reform several aspects of the law of public protest.

By: Timothy Zick (Williams & Mary Law School Virginia)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 610g
ISBN: 9781316519561
ISBN 10: 1316519562
Series: Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 11 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Protest, dissent, and democracy; 2. The managerial system; 3. Displacing dissent; 4. The rising costs of dissent; 5. Managing campus protest; 6. Arming public protests; 7. Protest and emergency powers; 8. Protesters' remedies; 9. Preserving public protest.

Timothy Zick is the John Marshall Professor of Government and Citizenship at William and Mary Law School. Professor Zick is the author of Speech out of Doors: Preserving First Amendment Liberties in Public Places (2008); The Cosmopolitan First Amendment: Protecting Transborder Expressive and Religious Liberties (2013); The Dynamic Free Speech Clause: Free Speech and its Relation to Other Constitutional Rights (2018); and The First Amendment in the Trump Era (2019). He is also the co-author of a First Amendment casebook, The First Amendment: Cases and Theory (2022).