Welcome to the First Amendment! I will be teaching this class IN PERSON in Room 201 every Tuesday and Thursday evening, from 6:00 to 7:15.

My Syllabus is attached to this posting. Please read it before the first day of class.

There is one required text for this course: STONE, SEIDMAN, SUNSTEIN, TUSHNET & KARLAN, THE FIRST AMENDMENT (6th ed. 2020) (Wolters Kluwer) (ISBN 9781543807806).

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 are ready for downloading now. How can you obtain them? By visiting my First Amendment course page, which is already up and running on the Law School's website. You will find my course page among the "Online Course Materials," after clicking on "More," and then on "Academics." The password for gaining access to my course page is: 680oneill21.

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 roughly 70 such problems. They will be posted on my course page before our first day of class. My approach to teaching this course is more fully explained in my Syllabus (attached).

I will spend the first 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 appear on page 6 of my Syllabus (section II(A) of this course).

I look forward to seeing you at our first class session—on Tuesday evening, August 24, commencing at 6:00 in Room 201.