Constitutional Law: First Amendment B2
Spring term, Block F
Th,F 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Professor Laurence H. Tribe
4 classroom credits LAW-21100A
This course is one of the two basic courses in the field: it focuses on the First Amendment and deals with the Freedom of Speech, the Free Exercise of Religion, and the Establishment Clause. The course will be taught largely through lectures, with some discussion and time for Q&A exchanges in each class. An earlier version of the course description made reference to the inclusion of moot courts that were to have been conducted and judged by students in the course, but the instructor has decided to eliminate that feature of the course in favor of more inclusive substantive coverage of the increasingly complex subject matter and closer examination of its relationship to constitutional law as a whole. A further wrinkle of which students should be aware before enrolling in the course is that the use of laptops, iPhones, Blackberries, and other similar devices will not be permitted during class. The examination will be a space-limited, same-day take-home exam.