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.

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 online 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.