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). Simply buy the book; don't spend extra money on "CasebookConnect," whatever that is.

There is no recommended text; instead, I am giving you two resources that I have written specifically for this course—a Speech Clause Overview and a Course Outline. Both are ready for downloading now; you'll find them attached to this posting.

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 more than 60 such problems. They are ready for downloading now; you'll find them attached to this posting. My approach to teaching this course is more fully explained in my Syllabus.

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; and please read my Speech Clause Overview, which lays out all of the black-letter law I'll be covering. 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 ("incitement"). 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, January 10, commencing at 6:00 in Room 201.