TEXTBOOK ON THE FIRST AMENDENT: FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION

This book stems from a decade of teaching experience centered on the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. It serves as a resource providing discussion materials, featuring carefully selected opinions from American courts. These opinions have been condensed to highlight the core issues, ensuring readers are not overwhelmed with extraneous details or unrelated legal matters. The textbook emphasizes the importance of understanding and valuing freedom of speech and religion. Most referenced judgments come from the United States Supreme Court, the chief protector of these liberties.

Franciszek Longchamps de Brier, an esteemed law professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, authored this work. He holds a degree from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Additionally, he is a Catholic priest who advises the Polish Episcopal Conference on bioethics and is involved in the Scientific Committee on Ancient Culture and the Committee of Legal Sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences.