First Amendment law in a nutshell

Barron, Jerome A. (Author). Dienes, C. Thomas. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0314146113 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780314146113 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxxix, 579 p. ; 19 cm.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, c2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. I. Background and methodology. Text, history and theory ; First Amendment methodology -- pt. II. Content-based regulation and low-value speech. Advocacy of illegal conduct ; Dangerous and offensive speech ; Obscenity and indecency ; Defamation, privacy and mental distress ; Commercial speech ; New Categories? -- pt. III. General approaches. The public forum ; Expressive conduct ; Freedom of association and belief ; The electoral process ; Government sponsored environments ; Freedom of the press -- pt. IV. Freedom of religion. Text, history and theory of the religion clauses ; The Antiestablishment Clause ; The Free Exercise Clause.