Matthew D. Bunker

Publications

• Free Speech Trapped in Amber: The Rise of the 'History and Tradition' Test, from Unregulated Guns to Highly Regulated Speech
  34 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 581 (2026) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2026
• Waiting for <em>Mahanoy</em>: Examining the Still-Unsettled Jurisprudence of Online Student Speech
  32 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 991 (2024) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2024
• Toxic Minimalism on the “Yolo” Court: The Supreme Court’s Dangerous Muddle In First Amendment and Speech-Adjacent Law
  47 HASTINGS COMM. & ENT. L.J. 51 (2024) · UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal · 2024
• The Jurisprudence of Public Concern in Anti-SLAPP Law: Shifting Boundaries in State Statutory Protection of Free Expression
  44 HASTINGS COMM. & ENT. L.J. 133 (2022) · UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal · 2022
• You Can't Be Serious: Problems of Facticity and 'Plausible Nonliteral Assertions' in U.S. Defamation Law
  19 COLO. TECH. L.J. 343 (2021) · Colorado Technology Law Journal · 2021

• Transformative Variations: The Uses and Abuses of the Transformative Use Doctrine in Right of Publicity Law
  14 WASH. J. L. TECH. & ARTS 138 (2019) · Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts · 2019
• Newsgathering Takes Flight in Choppy Skies: Legal Obstacles Affecting Journalistic Drone Use
  26 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP. MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 535 (2016) · Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal · 2016
• Fissures, Fractures & Doctrinal Drifts: Paying the Price in First Amendment Jurisprudence for a Half Decade of Avoidance, Minimalism & Partisanship
  24 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 943 (2016) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2016
• Know Your Audience: Risky Speech At The Intersection Of Meaning And Value In First Amendment Jurisprudence
  35 LOY. L. A. ENT. L. REV. 141 (2015) · Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review · 2015
• The Jurisprudence of Transformation: Intellectual Incoherence and Doctrinal Murkiness Twenty Years After Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music
  12 DUKE L. & TECH. REV. 92 (2014) · Duke Law & Technology Review · 2014
• An Actual Problem in First Amendment Jurisprudence: Examining the Immediate Impact of Brown's Proof-of-Causation Doctrine on Free Speech and Its Compatibility with the Marketplace Theory
  35 HASTINGS COMM. & ENT. L.J. 391 (2013) · UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal · 2013
• Contrasting Concurrences of Clarence Thomas: Deploying Originalism and Paternalism in Commercial and Student Speech Cases
  26 GA. ST. U. L. REV. (2012) · Georgia State University Law Review · 2012
• Not That There’s Anything Wrong with That: Imputations of Homosexuality and the Normative Structure of Defamation Law
  21 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP. MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 581 (2011) · Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal · 2011
• Free Speech, Fleeting Expletives, and the Causation Quagmire: Was Justice Scalia Wrong in Fox Television Stations?
  47 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 737 (2010) · San Diego Law Review · 2010

• Access to Government-Held Information in the Computer Age: Applying Legal Doctrine to Emerging Technology
  20 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 543 (1993) · Florida State University Law Review · 1993