Speech and Markets

from Jotwell by Louis Michael Seidman

Deborah Hellman, Money Talks but it Isn’t Speech, 95 Minn. L. Rev. — (forthcoming 2011), available at SSRN.

Louis Michael Seidman

Is there anything new to say about the constitutionality of campaign finance regulation?  Well, actually, there is, and Deborah Hellman says it in her fine new article “Money Talks but It Isn’t Speech.” The significance of Hellman’s article extends beyond the vexed yet tired issue of campaign finance, however.  Her work is an important intervention in a central – perhaps the central – problem in modern constitutional law.

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