Watch the Book Talk: Democracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom by Robert Post

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127

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 6:15pm - 7:30pm

In his new book, Yale Law School Dean and the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the "marketplace of ideas" and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an opinion," is inadequate to create and preserve the expert knowledge that is necessary for a modern democracy to thrive. 

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