First Amendment Law

by Kathleen M. Sullivan, Gerald Gunther

The Third Edition provides in freestanding form all the chapters and materials relating to the First Amendment from Sullivan and Gunther's Constitutional Law, Sixteenth Edition. It offers in-depth coverage of the freedoms of speech, press and association, as well as the free exercise and establishment clauses. This casebook grounds students in traditional First Amendment law and theory while exposing them to cutting-edge contemporary First Amendment problems, from controlling speech over the Internet to regulating money in modern political campaigns. It also covers ongoing clashes between the values of religious liberty and church-state separation in such matters as Ten Commandment displays, school vouchers, and faith-based initiatives. Students using this casebook will be well-equipped to litigate any area of First Amendment law. It includes all key First Amendment cases through the 2006-2007 Supreme Court Term, including the Court's latest word on speech by labor unions, speech by public school students, and limits on regulation of campaign finance.

Genres: Law, Nonfiction

630 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.