Abstract
William Van Alstyne’s contributions to First Amendment interpretation, like his contributions to all of American constitutional law, are characterized by a piercing intellectual honesty and an impish play of intelligence. One feels relentlessly pulled by the elegant currents of Professor Van Alsytne’s arguments, yet, at the same time, restlessly resistant, a resistance borne of the vague but certain wariness that one is but an apprentice forever consigned to a level of awareness several moves behind the master, who almost certainly will produce surprises at the end. ...
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Recommended Citation
Rodney A. Smolla, Content and Context: The Contributions of William Van Alstyne to First Amendment Interpretation, 54 Duke L.J. 1623 (2005).
