Abstract
Does the constitutional protection of commercial speech impair the government's ability to protect and promote public health? Or does the commercial speech doctrine itself enhance consumer education and harness market competition to advance public health? Do First Amendment limitations on regulation of commercial messages unduly retard governmental efforts to safeguard consumers? Or do they properly constrain illiberal paternalism? If the Court has been over-protective of health-related commercial speech, is there a principled place to redraw the line? And how should those governmental agencies entrusted with the power to protect public health and welfare respond to these constitutional constraints?
The editors of Health Matrix have assembled a group of experts from academia and legal practice to address these and related questions arising at the intersection of commercial speech and public health.
This abstract has been adapted from the Article's text.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Publication Information
21 Health Matrix 1-5 (2011)
Repository Citation
Adler, Jonathan H., "Symposium on Commercial Speech and Public Health" (2011). Faculty Publications. 2309.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/2309
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Administrative Law Commons, First Amendment Commons, Food and Drug Law Commons, Health Law and Policy Commons
Comments
Introduction to the Symposium on Commercial Speech and Public Health at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.