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.

Many people realize that the First Amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. These rights would remain hollow without a corresponding freedom of association. The course examines both the right of intimate association and the right of expressive association. The course also features a series of questions from fact patterns from actual appellate cases