Professor Adams’ section:
This course covers the law of the First Amendment’s speech clause. We proceed in three parts: the categories of expression the Court has treated as unprotected or less protected and how those categories were built; the modes of regulating speech and the standards of review that attach to them; and the guarantees that reach beyond speaking itself — the right not to speak and the right to associate. You will find much of the expression we will study worthless, offensive, or dangerous, and some of it has caused real harm to real people. The First Amendment’s characteristic move is to protect it anyway, and a principal justification is democratic: citizens cannot govern themselves if the government may decide what they hear. Expect to leave some classes less settled than you entered them.
Professor Herzog’s section:
This course examines the law made by The Supreme Court concerning the freedom of speech, and the freedom and establishment of religion.