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 David Hudson serves as an attorney for the First Amendment
Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Center, which is funded
by the Freedom Forum, seeks to foster a greater public understanding and
appreciation for First Amendment rights and values. Hudson writes for the
Freedom Forum's online publication, The Freedom Forum Online, and other
leading publications devoted to First Amendment issues. He contributes regularly to
the American Bar Association's Preview of United
States Supreme Court Cases, the Commercial Speech
Digest and the ABA
Journal.
Victims of crime have often sued businesses claiming that the
business' failure to provide adequate security was the cause of their harm.
Businesses counter that the sudden violent acts of third parties are
inherently unforeseeable. This course explores this intriguing area of the
law, which is rampant with major public policy issues on both sides. This
course introduces the different tests courts use to determine whether a
legal duty exists on the business owner. This course then tests participants
with a series of fact patterns drawn from real appellate cases.
Click here to take this course.
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