Freedom of Speech · Module 7
Locations and Forums
Where you may speak. The public forum categories, their boundaries, and what happens when the government opens property for expression and then wants it back.
Assigned reading
Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law (7th ed. 2023) — 1362–1425.
The casebook is the assigned text for this course. This page is the map: what the Module is doing, in what order, and what goes with it.
Topics
Places available for speech. The public forum doctrine: traditional, designated, limited and nonpublic forums. Speech on private property. Speech in schools, prisons, the military and the public workplace. Speech on government-run and privately owned digital platforms.
Reading list
0 of 11 readings published · the rest are in preparation and will appear here as they are edited
- Opinion Hague v. CIO
- Opinion Perry Education Association v. Perry Local Educators' Association
- Opinion International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee
- Opinion Hudgens v. NLRB
- Opinion Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
- Opinion Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
- Opinion Morse v. Frederick
- Opinion Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.
- Opinion Pickering v. Board of Education
- Opinion Garcetti v. Ceballos
- Opinion Moody v. NetChoice, LLC
Classroom visuals
Discussion
A Federal Buffer Zone Around Houses of Worship on Canvas — sign in required
This module in Canvas
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How to read this list
A case named without a marker is assigned as an opinion and is to be read in its entirety. Opinion (edited) means the Professor has cut it for length; the text on this site is the assigned text. Note means the case is not assigned as an opinion at all — its holding, its facts to the extent they matter, and its place in the doctrinal line are given in a note written for this course, and you are responsible for that note exactly as you are responsible for an assigned opinion. Most modules close with a Current case, a recent decision chosen because it shows the doctrine you have just read being applied at its live edge; current cases are assigned as opinions. You are responsible for all assigned required materials, including the notes, questions, problems and commentary that accompany the cases, whether or not we discuss them in class.