David Michael Skover is the former Fredric C. Tausend Professor of Law at the Seattle University School of Law. He has taught, wrote, and lectured in the fields of federal constitutional law, federal courts, free speech & the internet, and mass communications theory. He has also taught at Seattle University School of Law and was a visiting professor at the University of Indiana Law School in Bloomington. He has authored numerous books together with Ronald Collins which include: The Trials of Lenny Bruce, Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives, On Dissent: Its Meaning in America, and of course: “The People v. Ferlinghetti: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg’s Howl”