Robert M. O'Neil , a founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, is a Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law where he teaches constitutional and copyright law. In addition, he has had a distinguished career in higher education administration, serving as Provost of the University of Cincinnati, Vice President of Indiana University for the Bloomington Campus, President of the University of Wisconsin and most recently as President of the University of Virginia. O'Neil has testified before state legislatures and Congressional committees on the First Amendment implications of proposed legislation and has argued First Amendment cases before Federal Courts of Appeals. A native of Boston, O'Neil holds three degrees from Harvard and honorary degrees from Beloit College and Indiana University. An Analysis of Trends Hudson, Paulson, Rovella, .
Every idea is an incitement.
It offers itself for belief, and, if believed, it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it . . . The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement . . . is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result. Eloquence may set fire to reason. But . . . if, . . the beliefs expressed . . .