The First Amendment: Cases And Theory (aspen Select) [Hardcover]

A comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible text, The First Amendment: Cases and Theory, Third Edition, uses the case method to elucidate theory and doctrine.?In an area rife with with multi-factor tests, mastery of First Amendment theory and doctrine requires more than rote memorization of three and four part tests; it requires a firm foundation in the underlying theories and purposes that animate the Supreme Courts decisions.?No less important, the casebook also includes Theory Applied Problems at the end of each major section.?These Theory Applied Problems provide an easy and convenient means to assess students mastery of the relevant theories and precedents.?Because the Supreme Courts First Amendment jurisprudence has been a work in progress for many decades, the editors present the cases and doctrinal developments in historical context, thereby showcasing the Supreme Courts evolving tests, standards, and approaches. The editors also have included carefully targeted coverage of how other constitutional democracies, such as Canada and Germany, have reached very different conclusions regarding the scope and meaning of expressive freedom.? In an increasingly globalized marketplace of ideas, U.S. students need to have some appreciation of the idiosyncratic nature of U.S. free speech law and the degree to which the U.S.s highly speech-protective legal metrics have failed to gain widespread acceptance in the larger world.?All major contemporary free speech controversies receive coverage.??

Key Features:

• Completely revised and updated coverage to 2017  including coverage of the Supreme Courts major First Amendment decisions since publication of the Second Edition
• Comprehensive coverage of contemporary major free speech and religious freedom controversies that are likely to generate future landmark Supreme Court precedents in the years to come
• Suitable for adoption in comprehensive First AmendmentlSŲ