Product Overview
Van Alstyne's casebook provides detailed information on First Amendment law. In brief, this new edition integrates all of the supplemental material, including legislative and judicial, and more recent developments through the end of the Supreme Courts term in July of 2009.The organization and overall design of the work, however, have not changed. The division of the book into its two principal parts (Part I on the speech and press clauses and Part II on those concerned with religion and the state) is self-explanatory, reflecting as it does the different specific subject matter treated in each set of clauses within the First Amendment itself. Both subjects are embraced within this single work, however, to make it useful within a single integrated course of reasonably generous semester credit hours. Roughly two-thirds of this current edition are still addressed to the First Amendment clauses concerning freedom of speech (including the freedom of the press, of assembly and of peti
