ON DISSENT
PROFESSOR SKOVER

SPRING 2013

READING ASSIGNMENTS

 
 
Assignment 1:

Collins & Chaltain, We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free (2011)

Prologue: Freedom & Fear
Chapter 1: Free Speech Absolutism
Chapter 2: The History of the First & Fourteenth Amendments
  
Assignment 2:

Collins & Chaltain, We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free (2011)

Chapter 3: First Amendment Theories
Chapter 4: The Prior Restraint Doctrine

  
Assignment 3:  

Collins & Chaltain, We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free (2011)

Chapter 5: Subversive Advocacy and the Clear & Present Danger Test
  
Assignment 4:

Collins & Chaltain, We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free (2011)

Chapter 6: Civil Right of Association and the Nexus of Liberty & Equality
  
Assignment 5:  

Prospectus for Paper #1 due at the beginning of class.

Collins & Chaltain, We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free (2011)

Chapter 7: Hate Speech

  
Assignment 6:  

Collins & Chaltain, We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free (2011)

Chapter 8: Defamation
Chapter 9: Flag Desecration
  
Assignment 7:

Paper #1 due at the beginning of class

Collins & Chaltain, We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free (2011)

Chapter 10: Student Speech
Epilogue
  
Assignment 8:

Ronald Collins & David Skover, On Dissent (2013)

Prologue
Chapter 1: From Judicial Dissent to Peaceful Protest
  
Assignment 9:

Ronald Collins & David Skover, On Dissent (2013)

Chapter 2: From Civil to Uncivil Disobedience
 
Assignment10:

Ronald Collins & David Skover, On Dissent (2013)

Chapter 3: The Vagaries of Violence
  
Assignment 11:

Ronald Collins & David Skover, On Dissent (2013)

Chapter 4: Dissent, Inc.
  
Assignment 12:

Prospectus for Paper #2 due at the beginning of class

Ronald Collins & David Skover, On Dissent (2013)

Chapter 5: Dissent & Law's Parameters
Epilogue
  
Assignment 13:

Paper #2 due at the beginning of class

Discussion: Reflections on the Course
   

 

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