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Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: Selected Freedom of Speech Scholarship (June 18, 2010).

PB2010113078

Publication Date	2010
Personal Author	Ruane, K. A.
Page Count	28
Abstract	President Obama has nominated his Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, to be the next Supreme Court Justice. If confirmed, she would fill the seat being vacated by Justice John Paul Stevens upon his retirement. Prior to her term as Solicitor General, Ms. Kagan wrote pieces analyzing free speech jurisprudence. This report explains Ms. Kagan's articles in detail, as well as an additional, shorter piece, discussing the First Amendment implications of codes of conduct at public universities: (1) 'The Role of Government Motive in First Amendment Doctrine': The Concept, and Doctrine, of Impermissible Motive; (2) 'Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V.'; (3) 'When a Speech Code is a Speech Code: The Stanford Policy and the Theory of Incidental Restrictions.'
Keywords	Supreme Court nominees Universities Public schools United States Conduct codes Regulations Free speech jurisprudence Freedom of speech Elena Kagan Viewpoint neutrality Impermissible motive Content-based laws Content-neutral laws Hate Speech Pornography Speech codes Incidental restrictions theory First Amendent (U.S. Constitution) Constitutional amendments
Source Agency	Congressional Research Service
Corporate Authors	Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Rept. to Congress.
NTIS Issue Number	201021

Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: Selected Freedom of Speech Scholarship (June 18, 2010).

Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: Selected Freedom of Speech Scholarship (June 18, 2010).
PB2010113078

Publication Date	2010
Personal Author	Ruane, K. A.
Page Count	28
Abstract	President Obama has nominated his Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, to be the next Supreme Court Justice. If confirmed, she would fill the seat being vacated by Justice John Paul Stevens upon his retirement. Prior to her term as Solicitor General, Ms. Kagan wrote pieces analyzing free speech jurisprudence. This report explains Ms. Kagan's articles in detail, as well as an additional, shorter piece, discussing the First Amendment implications of codes of conduct at public universities: (1) 'The Role of Government Motive in First Amendment Doctrine': The Concept, and Doctrine, of Impermissible Motive; (2) 'Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V.'; (3) 'When a Speech Code is a Speech Code: The Stanford Policy and the Theory of Incidental Restrictions.'
Keywords	Supreme Court nominees Universities Public schools United States Conduct codes Regulations Free speech jurisprudence Freedom of speech Elena Kagan Viewpoint neutrality Impermissible motive Content-based laws Content-neutral laws Hate Speech Pornography Speech codes Incidental restrictions theory First Amendent (U.S. Constitution) Constitutional amendments
Source Agency	Congressional Research Service
Corporate Authors	Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Rept. to Congress.
NTIS Issue Number	201021