The First Amendment: Cases, Problems, and Materials

by Russell L. Weaver

This new book focuses on accessibility and teachability. Moreover, it is designed to help students understand First Amendment theory, lead students to greater insights, generate classroom interactivity, and facilitate effective and inspired learning. It accomplishes these objectives through the inclusion of problems. Many problems are factual in nature and are designed to encourage students to think about constitutional doctrine in context. Other problems are theoretical in nature and are designed to expand the student's range of thinking and perspective. The ultimate objective is to advance student ability to solve problems using critical thinking and thereby accelerate development of a core lawyering skill.

799 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Professor Russell L. Weaver graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1978. He was a member of the Missouri Law Review, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and won the Judge Roy Harper Prize. After law school, Professor Weaver was associated with Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas in Kansas City, Missouri, and worked for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

[sologdin · Rating 1 out of 5]

goodness, just awful, this corpus of law.

the most interesting thing is that the long line of incitement cases involves leftwingers raising constitutionality defenses to criminal statutes and getting imprisoned anyway--but then, with Brandenburg v. Ohio, a pack of KKK douches raises the same argument, and all of a sudden ZOMG free expression can't be endangered!