Title IX Due Process Protections Could Be Wiped Away by Education Department, Report Claims
"While the procedural protections currently in place are grossly inadequate, we may soon be calling these the 'good old days.'"
"While the procedural protections currently in place are grossly inadequate, we may soon be calling these the 'good old days.'"
My new paper on the First Amendment, Pickering balancing, and extramural speech
On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito repeated the common myth that "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater" is unprotected speech.
Prof. Elizabeth Weiss claims SJSU retaliated against her for her speech.
Even when there's good reason to criticize universities, we should keep the students out of our battles.
The state can't really banish ideas, and it's dangerous to try.
[This is a guest post by Prof. Jack Goldsmith of the Harvard Law School.]
Students for Life at George Mason University claims that another student organization defamed the group by criticizing its event that compared abortion to slavery and segregation.
The University of Idaho's guidance to faculty on classroom discussion makes plain a First Amendment problem
The policy, released this week, places unconstitutional prohibitions on faculty speech.
The professor, Joseph Michael Phillips, had spoken about Confederate memorials, race relations, a shooting, and masks.
Justice Scalia, to the rescue.
I think the letter's analysis as to contraceptives is inconsistent with the statutes, and with a binding Supreme Court precedent.
Guidance given to faculty about effects of state abortion law raises troubling academic freedom questions
To defend the Stop WOKE Act, Florida asks court to eliminate any academic freedom exception to government employee speech doctrine
Even though it might cause pearl-clutching, there is nothing obscene about drag shows.
A conversation with the outgoing president of Purdue University and former Republican governor of Indiana.
A new survey from FIRE shows one-third of college students report it is “sometimes” or “always” acceptable to shout down a controversial campus speaker.
"In January 2020, you called for 'an involuntary evaluation' of President Trump, and you said, 'I am beginning to believe a mental health hold ... will become inevitable.' That same month, you publicly suggested that President Trump, Rudolph Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz had a 'shared psychosis.'"
Diversity statements have become common in university admissions and hiring, and that's a problem
An interesting new addition to the flurry of lawsuits over the First Amendment implications of social media
The science writer and journalist talks identity politics, wokeness, trans athletes, and why his goal is to find out what is true rather than to "be right."
That's illegal, says a new suit filed on Thursday.
The Clovis Community College policy bans "posters with inappropriate or offense [sic] language or themes."
Stuart Reges placed a land acknowledgment in his syllabus. Just not the one his university wanted.
The university's own students are often not so lucky.
likely unconstitutional, holds a federal district court.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is defending expression on campus and off as the ACLU becomes a progressive advocacy group.
Students sued to protect their First and 14th Amendment rights.
The "victim-centered" training required by S.B. 2469 would compromise the impartiality of Title IX investigations.
The longtime head of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education announces a new name and expanded mission for FIRE.
Under the reasoning of the Georgetown University Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity & Affirmative Action (IDEAA) report in the Ilya Shapiro matter, a wide range of public speech criticizing religions, political parties, veterans, etc. could be "prohibit[ed] harassment."
"Further analysis shows that you’ve made it impossible for me to fulfill the duties of my appointed post," writes Shapiro.
The law school reinstated him on a technicality, but made it clear that they weren't going to uphold the university's free speech policy.
"I look forward to teaching and engaging in a host of activities relating to constitutional education," said Shapiro.
The event was postponed in order to mollify students who said trying to treat autism was "hateful, eugenicist."