The First Amendment: Cases, Comments, Questions

This widely-adopted softcover casebook, adapted from Choper, Dorf, Fallon, and Schauer’s Constitutional Law but with numerous additional references and comments, is designed for a two- or three-unit course in the First Amendment. The new Eighth Edition has been thoroughly revised, tightened, and updated. The materials are presented in a way that permits instructors to depart from the organization of the casebook with relative ease. The book exposes students to original perspectives they might otherwise miss. Notes and questions enable students to study the variety of competing views embodying the First Amendment as they emerge from concrete cases rather than imposing an abstract characterization and classification on the student at the outset of the study. Extensive references help students to situate the cases within larger academic and theoretical debates.

The new edition of the casebook continues with further modifications the revised organization from the Seventh Edition of the basic freedom of speech materials on content regulation, forum analysis, and the coverage/scope of the First Amendment, and further includes a large number of new cases and references. There has been substantial editing to make way for the new material, and thus the book remains of approp(more...)