Bücher von David M. O'Brien

Each annual edition of Supreme Court Watch offers students narratives and analyses of legal disputes, political battles, and social confrontations as they unfold before the Supreme Court. Also included are numerous excerpts from the justices' opinions and dissents on the Court's most influential cases of the past three terms, as well as a running preview of the cases awaiting the Court in the forthcoming term. Supreme Court Watch is an indispensable resource for any course on law, legal studies, and the judiciary.

Each annual edition of Supreme Court Watch o ffers students narratives and analyses of legal disputes, political battles, and social confrontations as they unfold before the Supreme Court. Included in Supreme Court Watch 2003 are numerous excerpts from the justices' opinions and dissents on the Court's most influential cases of the past two terms, as well as a running preview of the cases awaiting the Court in the forthcoming 2003-2004 term. The Watch is an ideal supplement to the author's two-volume casebook, Constitutional Law and Politics, and serves as an excellent addition to other books for courses on law, legal studies, and the judiciary.

The First Amendment declares that 'Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press. . . . ' Yet, in the following 200 years, the Supreme Court has defined certain categories of expression-the obscene, the defamatory, commercial, and fighting words or disruptive expression-as constitutionally unprotected. Noted legal scholar David O'Brien provides a history of each category of unprotected speech and puts into bold relief the larger questions of what kinds of expression should (and should not) receive First Amendment protection.