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Selected Works of Ira P. Robbins
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Flipping 'The Bird' Just Isn't Obscene Anymore, Law Professor Argues
NPR (2012)
  • Ira P Robbins
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Abstract
American University law professor Ira Robbins makes the case that the digitus impudicus (as it was known back in ancient Rome), just isn't obscene anymore.

"Is it inappropriate? That's another question," he tells NPR's Audie Cornish. But, he says, "it doesn't mean what it used to mean."
Keywords
  • Constitutional Law,
  • Obscenties
Disciplines
Publication Date
February 7, 2012
Citation Information
Ira P Robbins. "Flipping 'The Bird' Just Isn't Obscene Anymore, Law Professor Argues" NPR (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ira_robbins/64/