Links to Professional Resources

  • Federal Trade Commission
    • This is the website of the primary regulator of advertising in the United States, the Federal Trade Commission. It includes various links including news and the history of the FTC. The site also contains a search mechanism.
    • Follow on Twitter: @FTC

 

 

  • Government Regulation of Commercial Speech
    • This is another website providing an overview of commercial speech. Internal links give the reader U.S. Supreme Court opinions in some of the major commercial speech cases in history.

 

  • The FDA and Commercial Speech Protections
    • This is another website that provides an overview of commercial speech, but this one is specific to the Food and Drug Administration and the extent to which that federal agency is involved in the regulation of advertising.