First Readings for Spring 2025
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Dates for Spring 2025
- The form for submitting assignments will be activated on Monday, December 9, 2024.
- Assignments will begin to be posted Monday, December 9, 2024.
- The form for submitting assignments will be deactivated on Monday, February 3, 2025.
- Assignments will be removed on Monday, February 3, 2025.
Media Law (LAWS 767 §001)
Instructor Name(s)
Robinson
Textbook Information
Required:
- Barton Carter, Marc Franklin, Amy Sanders, Jay Wright, The First Amendment and the Fourth Estate: The Law of Mass Media (Foundation Press, 2021). Available for purchase and rental from the bookstore and other sources in various print and digital formats.
Optional:
- Eric Goldman, Internet Law: Cases & Materials (Aug. 2024 version). This is a leading casebook on internet law issues, written by a prominent professor and scholar. It is available in various versions: PDF ($10) from https://ericgoldman.gumroad.com/l/djgzgh; and in Kindle ($9.99), paperback ($20) and hardcover ($28) from Amazon at https://a.co/d/gLWKhWW.
- The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law (any recent edition). Available for purchase and rental from the bookstore and other sources. The print edition is also available on reserve at Cooper Library (call number PN4783 A83). Also available online via subscription.
General Assignment Information
Assignments for Jan. 13, 2025 class:
Reading for this class:
- Carter, et. al., pp. 29-47
- William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 4:150-53 (1769) available on Blackboard and at http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_speechs4.html
Articles for discussion:
- Ronald K. L. Collins, What’s wrong with First Amendment casebooks? Where to begin? First Amendment News 399 (Oct. 18, 2023), available on Blackboard and at https://www.thefire.org/news/blogs/ronald-kl-collins-first-amendment-news/whats-wrong-first-amendment-casebooks-where-begin
Case for this class:
- ALL: SKIM The Tryal of John Peter Zenger (1736), available on Blackboard and at https://history.nycourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/1Jan. History_Tryal-John-Peter-Zenger.pdf Note: This is long, and written in archaic English. Do your best to get the basic idea of the case and the arguments.
- ALL: Carter, et.al., pp. 31-32