Vanderbilt Law Review Volume 68 | Issue 6 Article 1 11-2015 High Value Lies, Ugly Truths, and the First Amendment Alan K. Chen Justin Marceau Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, and the First Amendment Commons Recommended Citation Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau, High Value Lies, Ugly Truths, and the First Amendment, 68 Vanderbilt Law Review 1435 (2019) Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol68/iss6/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vanderbilt Law Review by an authorized editor of Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW VOLUME 68 NOVEMBER 2015 NUMBER 6 ARTICLES High Value Lies, Ugly Truths, and the First Amendment Alan K Chen* Justin Marceau** I. INTRODUCTION ................................... 1437 II. CONSTITUTIONAL DOCTRINE: THE TREATMENT OF LIES AS EXPRESSION ............................... 1440 A. Lies as No Value Speech .................... 1441 B. Lies That May Be ProhibitedBecause of a Strong Government Interest ............... 1444 C. Lies That Are Protected in Order to Avoid Chilling (as Opposed to Generating) Truthful Speech ..................... ..... 1447 D. The Beginning of a New Era: ProtectingLies That Serve No Public Value ................. 1451 * William M. Beaney Memorial Research Chair and Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law. ** Animal Legal Defense Fund Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law. The authors would like to thank Ashutosh Bhagwat, Richard Fallon, Margot Kaminski, William Marshall, Helen Norton, James Weinstein, and participants at the 2014 Loyola University Chicago Constitutional Law Colloquium and a University of Denver Sturm College of Law workshop who commented on earlier versions of this paper.