Wendell Bird

Wendell Bird is the author of three other books on freedoms of speech and press: Press and Speech under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign against Dissent (Oxford University Press, 2016); Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 (Harvard University Press, 2020); and The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech: From Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act (Oxford University Press, 2020). He earned...See more

Wendell Bird is the author of three other books on freedoms of speech and press: Press and Speech under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign against Dissent (Oxford University Press, 2016); Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 (Harvard University Press, 2020); and The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech: From Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act (Oxford University Press, 2020). He earned a D.Phil. in legal history from the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He is a Visiting Scholar at Emory University School of Law. See less