PUBLICATIONS

The Center regularly publishes new editions of "First Amendment Rights of Commercial Speakers," a study examining the relationship between the First Amendment, broadcast regulations, and commercial speech. The book served as a basis for an amicus brief before the Supreme Court in the McHenry Case and now includes updated information on relevant Supreme Court cases on campaign reform, commercial speech, and billboard regulation.

The Center offers a particularly large list of publications.

In every even numbered election year, the Center publishes a new version of its "Political Broadcast Reference Manual," which provides a review of the regulations concerning such issues as candidates rights to advertise, the rules governing broadcasting of political debates, and the equal time and equal access rules.  It also covers the political editorial and personal attack rules.

The Center maintains and updates several white papers available for downloading (see White Papers .)  They cover a variety of major issues ranging from academic freedom on the campus to political campaign reform, and from the First Amendment rights of billboard advertisers to violence on television.  A number of our publications are available for purchase at $25 a piece including shipping.  They include:

• Political Broadcast Reference Manual (A summary of regulations affecting broadcasters regarding political debates, advertisements, endorsements, and editorials.)
  
• First Amendment Rights of Commercials Speakers (An analysis of the regulations and Supreme Court rulings on advertising over the various media.)
  
• The First Amendment in the Information Age (A study telecommunication regulations.)
  
• The Four Freedoms of the First Amendment (Waveland Press, 2004).
  
  You may submit requests for publications by contacting CFAS.

Cooperative ventures with the University's cable channel have resulted in programming for the community on First Amendment issues. The most recent program presented both sides of the debate on the question government censorship of artists who receive funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Center also established liaison with Moscow State University in Russia and co-sponsored the 1994 tour of the Russian national intercollegiate debate team in the United States.

All of these accomplishments led the Center for Responsive Politics to conclude:

"The Center educates the public on the First Amendment and government regulation of speech, primarily through the work of Craig Smith, executive director, who conducts lectures at schools throughout the country and writes most of the organization's articles on freedom of speech, which have appeared in political journals."