First Assignment Fall 2025
First Amendment Rights and Responsibilities
LAW 680 Section 61
Robin Wilson
Assignment details
Welcome to First Amendment Rights and Responsibilities.
For First Class: August 20
Read through the Syllabus (it is on Blackboard)
Get familiar with the casebook - The First Amendment - Stone, Seidman, et al.
Review Summary of Contents - ix
Read 1st Amendment; 14th Amendment, Section 1; and U.S. Constitution, Article III
Read biographies of Justices Hugo L. Black, Louise D. Brandeis, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (they are all in your casebook)
Read Chapter 1 - The History and Philosophy of Free Expression
Read Free Speech Center Article on William Blackstone https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/william-blackstone/