David L. Hudson Jr. is a research attorney at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a First Amendment contributing editor to the American Bar Association's Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases. He also is the author of two books for young people: The Bill of Rights: The First Ten Amendments of the Constitution and The Fourteenth Amendment: Equal Protection Under the Law. He has written several law review articles dealing with the First Amendment rights of public school students. Hudson received his law degree from Vanderbilt University and his undergraduate degree from Duke University.