Ideas of the First Amendment

This title is organized for a course centered on the leading thinkers in the tradition, the brilliant and colorful dissenters, political leaders, and judges who collectively gave us the First Amendment as we know it, while covering each of the conventional doctrinal First Amendment topics. Subjects include: advocacy of revolution, libel, obscenity, campaign finance, hate speech, Internet regulation, the public forum, subsidies, fighting words, compelled speech and association, publishing classified documents, flag-burning, commercial speech, indecency, and free speech in wartime.