The First Amendment

By Geoffrey R. Stone and Louis M. Seidman

Book Overview

The First Amendment, Second Edition, puts the power of a fomidable author team at the service of instructors who teach elective courses focusing exclusively on freedoms of speech, expression, and religion. Using cases, excerpted scholarship, and notes, The First Amendment, Second Edition, continues to provide a thorough treatmen of these critical areas in constitutional law. If you are not already using the First Amendment in your course, consider these unique strengths: comprehensive cogent treatment that balances historical, theoretical, and practical approaches authors highly regarded in the field For The passion and erudition of both their teaching and their scholarship developed form the authors' highly successful Constitutional Law, Fourth Edition casebook, The text offers more updated and in-depth coverage of first amendment issues than the parent book numerous well-crafted problems reinforce learning and build practice skills three-quarters of the text is devoted To The topic of free speech, with the remaining quarter dedicated to religion Features of the Second Edition: the entire book includes case and note material on major Supreme Court decisions And The First Amendment implications of September 11 notes have been streamlined to maintain a trim, teachable length major cases include Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, (rights of gays in private organizations), United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, (televising sexual material), Hill v. Colorado, (anti-abortion demonstrations near health facilities), City of Erie v. Pap's A.M. (illustrating prohibitions on public nudity), and zelman v. Simmons-Harris, (constitutionality of school voucher programs)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735529299
• ISBN13: 9780735529298
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers
• Length: 649 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent In-Depth Survey of First Amendment Law

Read this book as part of my law school class in the First Amendment (before taking Constitutional Law) and found it to be well worth the price. First Amendment law can be confusing, and the Court has refined its many approaches over nearly a century of jurisprudence. If you are seriously interested in understanding the role the First Amendment plays in this nation's history, and are not put off by reading cases, you will find this book an impressive resource. I would not, however, recommend this book as an introduction for the general interest reader, as it organized thematically, rather than chronologically, and could very easily become boring.