Freedom of speech on private property /

Noted legal authority Freedman, author of Frivolous Lawsuits and Frivolous Defenses (1987), Professional Sports and Antitrust (CH, Mar '80), and The Right of Privacy in the Computer Age (CH, Sep '87), provides the kind of in-depth analysis of the conflict between freedom of speech and the right of private property that is normally found only in constitutional law casebooks. Increasingly, interest groups have found airports, shopping malls, and office plazas the best places to get their messages before the greatest number of people. Although private property, such areas are sometimes seen as quasi-public. The author offers an extensive survey of the most important court decisions that have attempted to delineate the rights of those who want to express their views and those who want to control access to private property. Among the other topics discussed are commercial speech, political advertising, picketing, and pornography. Extensively documented; it contains a selected bibliography, a subject index, and a case index. Written with a legal audience in mind, but may be read with profit by others interested in the topic. For upper levels. -R. Stidham, Lamar University