Ronald K. L. Collins

Ronald Collins is the Harold S. Shefelman scholar at the University of Washington Law School and a fellow at the First Amendment Center. He is the editor of CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA (1980), THE DEATH OF CONTRACT (1992), and THE FUNDAMENTAL HOLMES: A FREE SPEECH CHRONICLE AND READER. He is the co-author of THE DEATH OF DISCOURSE, (1996, 2005), THE TRIALS OF LENNY BRUCE (2002), AND WE MUST NOT BE AFRAID TO BE FREE: STORIES OF FREE EXPRESSION IN AMERICA (2011). IN 2010 he was selected as a writer in residence at the Normal Mailer home in Provincetown.