FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP

Wednesday, January 29 from 6:30-7:30pm EST

The First Amendment guarantees five basic freedoms: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. These sacred freedoms are not absolute. Obscenity, defamation, bribery, perjury, true threats, child pornography, anti-trust conspiracies, false advertising and solicitation to commit murder are classes of speech that get no First Amendment protection.

During the past one hundred years the courts, federal and state, have wrestled with the clash between free expression on the one hand, and privacy, public safety and national security on the other.

This class is a First Amendment primer for students new to the topic and a great refresher for those whose work or volunteer service involves the Five Freedoms.

Your Instructor:

Gregory V. Sullivan, Esq. is the President of Malloy & Sullivan, Lawyers Professional Corporation and teaches First Amendment Media Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston.  He serves as the President of the New England First Amendment Coalition and on the New Hampshire Supreme Court Committee on the Judiciary and the Media.  He has argued numerous landmark First Amendment and Right to Know cases before the Supreme Court of New Hampshire.  He is a founding Member of the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications