There is one required text for this course: STONE, SEIDMAN, SUNSTEIN, TUSHNET & KARLAN, THE FIRST AMENDMENT (5th ed. 2016) (Wolters Kluwer) (ISBN 9781454868248). There is no recommended text; instead, I will be giving you two resources that I have written specifically for this course—a Speech Clause Overview and a Course Outline. Those documents, along with my Syllabus, will be ready for downloading on or before Thursday, August 10. You'll find them on my First Amendment course page, which will appear on the Law School's website, among the "Online Course Materials." Once they're ready, I will email you the password for gaining access to my course page.

I will employ a "problem" approach in teaching this course. In the classroom, we will apply First Amendment case law to hypothetical fact patterns that I have fashioned. I have written 83 such problems. They will be posted on my course page before our first day of class.

I will spend the first two or three class sessions giving you an introduction to the history and black letter law of the Speech Clause of the First Amendment. For those class sessions, please read STONE SEIDMAN, pages 3-16. Once those introductory class sessions are over, we'll turn to our first body of Speech Clause case law—expression that induces others to break the law. If you'd like to get started on those readings, they span pages 17-61 of STONE SEIDMAN, but please consult my Syllabus for the passages that you should skip.

I look forward to seeing you at our first class session—on Tuesday afternoon, August 22, commencing at 2:30 in Room 201.