The Supreme Court and the philosopher: how John Stuart Mill shaped US free speech protections

Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press. Edited by Troy A. Kozma (2024)
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Abstract

English philosopher John Stuart Mill's understanding of the freedom of speech has been increasingly adopted over the last century into the US Supreme Court's interpretation of the First Amendment, beginning with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s use of an analogy that is now known as the 'marketplace of ideas'

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