Larry Gostin is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University and Faculty Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. A globally recognized authority in health law, he directs the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law and is an elected lifetime Member of the National Academy of Medicine. Prof. Gostin has shaped policy through multiple epidemics from AIDS SARS, and Influenza H1N1 to Ebola, MERS, Zika, and mpox to pandemic COVID-19, advised world leaders, and authored award-winning books.

• Editor’s Introduction Part I: Collective and Individual Rights 1. Towards resolving the conflict 2. Rights and political conflict 3. Preserving public protest: the legal approach 4. Trade unions and their members 5. Affirmative action 6. Politics, socialism, and civil liberties Part 2: Free expression and freedom of information Editor’s notes: The conflicting views of two national civil liberties organizations 7. Is there a right to stop offensive speech? The case of the Nazis at Skokie 8. The spider and the fly: a question of principle Editor’s notes: Unravelling the conflict 9. Pornography, sex discrimination, and free speech 10. Pornography and free speech: the civil rights approach 11. National security and freedom of information

Larry Gostin is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University and Faculty Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. A globally recognized authority in health law, he directs the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law and is an elected lifetime Member of the National Academy of Medicine. Prof. Gostin has shaped policy through multiple epidemics from AIDS SARS, and Influenza H1N1 to Ebola, MERS, Zika, and mpox to pandemic COVID-19, advised world leaders, and authored award-winning books.

• Editor’s Introduction Part I: Collective and Individual Rights 1. Towards resolving the conflict 2. Rights and political conflict 3. Preserving public protest: the legal approach 4. Trade unions and their members 5. Affirmative action 6. Politics, socialism, and civil liberties Part 2: Free expression and freedom of information Editor’s notes: The conflicting views of two national civil liberties organizations 7. Is there a right to stop offensive speech? The case of the Nazis at Skokie 8. The spider and the fly: a question of principle Editor’s notes: Unravelling the conflict 9. Pornography, sex discrimination, and free speech 10. Pornography and free speech: the civil rights approach 11. National security and freedom of information

Larry Gostin is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University and Faculty Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. A globally recognized authority in health law, he directs the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law and is an elected lifetime Member of the National Academy of Medicine. Prof. Gostin has shaped policy through multiple epidemics from AIDS SARS, and Influenza H1N1 to Ebola, MERS, Zika, and mpox to pandemic COVID-19, advised world leaders, and authored award-winning books.

• Editor’s Introduction Part I: Collective and Individual Rights 1. Towards resolving the conflict 2. Rights and political conflict 3. Preserving public protest: the legal approach 4. Trade unions and their members 5. Affirmative action 6. Politics, socialism, and civil liberties Part 2: Free expression and freedom of information Editor’s notes: The conflicting views of two national civil liberties organizations 7. Is there a right to stop offensive speech? The case of the Nazis at Skokie 8. The spider and the fly: a question of principle Editor’s notes: Unravelling the conflict 9. Pornography, sex discrimination, and free speech 10. Pornography and free speech: the civil rights approach 11. National security and freedom of information