Austin C. Vining

Publications

• Durability and Defamation: How Defamation Law Continues to Adapt in the 21st Century
  4 FLA. ENT. & SPORTS L. REV. (2025) · Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review · 2025
• Rap as a Proxy for Blackness: How the Prosecution of Rap Lyrics Continues to Unconstitutionally Restrict Free Speech Rights
  31 U. FLA. J. L. & PUB. POL'Y (2020) · University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy · 2020

• No Means No: An Argument for the Expansion of Rape Shield Laws to Cases of Nonconsensual Pornography
  25 WM. & MARY J. RACE GENDER & SOC. JUST. 303 (2019) · William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice · 2019
• Fake News and the First Amendment: Reconciling a Disconnect Between Theory and Doctrine
  86 U. CIN. L. REV. 99 (2018) · University of Cincinnati Law Review · 2018
• Filtering Fake News Through a Lens of Supreme Court Observations and Adages
  16 FIRST AMEND. L. REV. 153 (2018) · First Amendment Law Review · 2018
• Trick or Treat?: Mississippi County Doesn't Clown Around With Halloween Costumes
  36 MISS. COLL. L. REV. (2017) · Mississippi College Law Review · 2017
• Reining in Internet-Age Expansion of Exemption 7(C): Towards a Tort Law Approach for Ferreting out Legitimate Privacy Concerns and Unwarranted Intrusions Under FOIA
  70 SMU L. REV. 255 (2017) · SMU Law Review · 2017

• DEFAMATION PER SE AND TRANSGENDER STATUS: WHEN MACRO-LEVEL VALUE JUDGMENTS ABOUT EQUALITY TRUMP MICRO-LEVEL REPUTATIONAL INJURY
  85 TENN. L. REV. (2009) · Tennessee Law Review · 2009