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Collectively, they provide newcomers to the field with an excellent introduction to the history and fundamental jurisprudential of U.S. free speech rights, and they provide important new ways of looking at these historical issues for those already acquainted with free speech law. Within this section, Floyd Abrams' chapter about the infamous I Citizens United i case and Robert C. Post's chapter about free speech on university campuses both stick out, albeit for different reasons. In his chapter on the hot button issue of the role of free speech on university campuses, Post artfully defends the view that it is academic freedom, rather than traditional freedom of speech, that applies on university campuses. [Extracted from the article]