This year, Banned Books Week, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular, falls on September 23-29. Launched in 1982, Banned Book Week was in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries and highlights the value of free and open access to information. It’s an appropriate time to highlight parts of our collection focused on these rights to free expression in speech, writing and intellectual inquiry. Some of the books celebrate freedom of the press, while others discuss the continuing threat of censorship in old and new media.

In the Collection

Movies, censorship, and the law
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1000718?lang=eng

The Miracle case : film censorship and the Supreme Court
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1117300?lang=eng

Academic freedom in the wired world : political extremism, corporate power, and the university
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1117303?lang=eng

Unfettered expression : freedom in American intellectual life
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1109905?lang=eng

Not in front of the children : "indecency," censorship and the innocence of youth
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1030369?lang=eng

100 banned books : censorship histories of world literature
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1092582?lang=eng

Speaking up : the unintended costs of free speech in public schools
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1121645?lang=eng

For the common good : principles of American academic freedom
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1128115?lang=eng

The Bible in the park : religious expression, public forums, and federal district courts
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1100465?lang=eng

Freedom for the thought that we hate : a biography of the First Amendment
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1114597?lang=eng

How free can the press be?
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1109866?lang=eng

Free speech in the United States
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1024027?lang=eng

Speech out of doors : preserving First Amendment liberties in public places
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1121975?lang=eng

Freeing the presses : the First Amendment in action
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1085747?lang=eng

Public school law : teachers' and students' rights
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1140395?lang=eng

Free speech yearbook
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1014506?lang=eng

The system of freedom of expression
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1021829?lang=eng

Present dangers : rediscovering the First Amendment
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1074550?lang=eng

Freedom of the press from Zenger to Jefferson http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1031901?lang=eng

The First Amendment
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1145039?lang=eng

First amendment law handbook
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1133693?lang=eng

Internet and online law
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1115128?lang=eng

Social media law : a handbook of cases & use
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1142869?lang=eng

Cyber rights : defending free speech in the digital age
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1026768?lang=eng

Free speech in its forgotten years
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1024540?lang=eng