Research Catalog

Title

First Amendment law in a nutshell / by Jerome A. Barron, C. Thomas Dienes.

Author

Barron, Jerome A.

Publication

St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Dienes, C. Thomas

Description

xxxix, 579 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

A succinct exposition of the law to which anyone can turn for reliable guidance. -- Publisher description

Series Statement

West nutshell series

Uniform Title

Nutshell series

Alternative Title

First Amendment law

Subject

• United States
• Freedom of speech > United States
• Freedom of religion > United States

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

0314146113

OCLC

• 54054579
• SCSB-10490035

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library