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.

Prisoners do not forfeit their constitutional rights when they enter the prison gates. In Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78 (1987), Justice O'Connor wrote: "Prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmates from the protections of the Constitution." However, because prisoners are in the unique position of being under government supervision 24 hours a day, some contend that prisoners are the persons most in need of judicial review to protect the constitutional freedoms they still possess.

This course introduces participants to the leading cases and tests their knowledge with a series of fact patterns from real appellate cases