You Can't Say That!: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws - Softcover

David Bernstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930865600 ISBN 13: 9781930865600

Publisher: Cato Institute, 2004

Synopsis

Activists and courts are using antidiscrimination laws to erode civil liberties such as free speech, the free exercise of religion, and freedom of association. The books examines how these laws are being applied on college campuses and in the workplace in ways that threaten our fundamental freedoms.

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About the Author:

David E. Bernstein is an associate professor at the George Mason University School of Law. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy. After clerking for Judge David Nelson of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and working as a litigator at Crowell & Moring, he served as a Mellon Foundation Research Fellow at Columbia University School of Law. Professor Bernstein is the author of more than 60 scholarly articles, book chapters, and think tank studies. He is author of Only One Place of Redress: African-Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal (Duke University Press, 2001), coeditor of Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (MIT Press, 1993), and coauthor of The New Wigmore: Volume on Expert and Demonstrative Evidence (forthcoming). He has been named one of the most cited professors among those who have entered law teaching since 1992.

Review:

"If you're looking to start an argument, take this book to an ACLU meeting." -- The New York Post

"You Can't Say That!" does an excellent and methodical job of cataloguing the insanity of anti-discrimination run amok." -- The Washington Times

"[Bernstein] demonstrates that...'activists' for one cause or another have shown a willingness to trample on the rights of others." -- National Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Cato Institute
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1930865600
• ISBN 13: 9781930865600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200