First Amendment Law

by Kathleen M. Sullivan, Noah Feldman

The Fifth Edition provides in-depth coverage of the freedoms of speech, press and association, as well as the free exercise and establishment clauses. The material covers in freestanding form all the chapters and materials relating to the First Amendment from Sullivan and Feldman's Constitutional Law, Eighteenth Edition. Highlights of the new edition include the state of the law on such contemporary First Amendment problems as restricting corporate expenditures in political campaigns and regulation of speech constituting material support of terror. Students using this casebook will be well-equipped to litigate any area of First Amendment law.

Genres: Law, Nonfiction

785 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

Kathleen Marie Sullivan is an American lawyer and name partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a global, litigation-only white shoe law firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Based in the firm's New York City office, Sullivan chairs its national appellate practice group.

Reviews

[sara]

makes the compelling point....that we have a First Amendment......[i'm sorry i have to rate this to reach my reading goal : / ]

[Erunion · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is pretty good as far as casebooks go... but that's the problem. Here we have a book that, for the most part, collects important cases. Work is done to edit the cases down to key points, to be sure, but otherwise these cases can be obtained for free off the internet.

The authors do put notes full of thoughtful questions after some of the cases, but there's little other work. For the most part, they seem to be charging a hundred dollars or so for an editing of public domain materials.

I have a hard time justifying that.

Otherwise, this book is simply a portion of the Sullivan Constitutional Law book. Useful if you want to save weight in your backpack, I suppose.