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 clash between privacy interests and First Amendment rights has proven to be fertile ground for the courts. This course examines the common law privacy torts of intrusion, public disclosure of private facts, false light and appropriation. The course begins with an introduction to the different torts. It then provides participants an opportunity to learn more through a series of fact patterns from real appellate cases.