Summer 2006: Assignments

Casebook: William Cohen, The First Amendment (Foundation Press 2003)
Online Materials: Professor William Linder's Exploring Constitutional Law (Link)

I. Establishment Clause

1. Casebook p. 464-482; Linder Introduction (Link); Engel v. Vitale (Link); Handout 1

2. Casebook p. 482-487: Handout 2; Selman v. Cobb County School District (link); Prof. Linder's page on "The Evolution Controversy" (Link)

3. Casebook p.487-515; Handouts 3 and 4

4. Ten Commandments decisions (McConnell et al on line text--link)

5. Casebook p. 516-550

6. Casebook p. 550-560; Rosenberger Oral Argument

7. Newdow case (Link) ; Casebook p. 311-313

II. Free Exercise Clause

1. Babylon Five: Believers episode (in class viewing); Linder Introduction (Link)

2. Reynolds case (Link); Casebook p. 560-567; Goldman case (Link); Lyng case (Link)

3. Casebook p. 567-578; Handout 5; Handout 6 (Lukumi and Axson-Flynn)

4. Locke v. Davey (Handout 7)

5. Casebook p. 578-588; Cutter v. Wilkinson materials (Link)


III. Religion and Freedom of Expression: Public Forum Analysis, Public Schools, Subsidized Speech, and Expressive Association

1. Casebook p. 206-228

2. Casebook p. 228-244

3. Casebook p. 262-279: Poway case (Link) and (Link); Nat Hentoff, The Right Not to Read a Book with Whores in It (on Reserve in Library)

4. Casebook p. 279-298 (Re-read Locke v. Davey Handout 7)

5. Casebook p. 311-324; Christian Legal Society v. Washburn University (Link);Christian Legal Society v. Walker (Link)