The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that public school students do not lose their constitutional rights to freedom of expression at school. However, the high court has also made clear that the rights of students and minors in general are not the same as that of adults.

The jurisprudence regarding public school students' First Amendment rights has developed in the past thirty years into a rich body of law. This course examines the leading U.S. Supreme Court cases involving student free-expression. The course also presents questions from real-life appellate cases, seeking to test your application of the basic principles and tests from the U.S. Supreme Court.