Keith E. Whittington is the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Keith E. Whittington
Latest from Keith E. Whittington
On the Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship
My new paper on the original meaning of the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
On the Status of Judicial Independence in the American Constitutional Order
My new paper on judicial independence as a constitutional construction.
Justice Sotomayor on Supreme Court Term Limits
A bit of cold water on a popular Court "reform" from a justice on the left-wing of the Court
On the Politics of University Autonomy
My new paper thinking through the political calculus of independent universities
The Value of Institutional Neutrality for Free Inquiry
My new article in the First Amendment Law Review's symposium on campus free speech
Diversity Statements and the First Amendment
My new article on diversity statements in faculty hiring and the First Amendment
Academic Freedom Podcast on the University Endowment Tax
An explainer from Brian Galle
Academic Freedom Podcast on Restricting International Students at Harvard University
A conversation with Eugene Volokh on the First Amendment issues of the Trump administration's actions
Academic Freedom Podcast on the Federal Funding Freeze Aimed at Harvard University
An explainer from Cass Sunstein
Academic Freedom Podcast on Rescinding Harvard's Tax Exempt Status
Can Trump do that, and what would it mean?
New Academic Freedom Podcast on the Columbia Situation
A conversation with David Cole
Diversity Statements Coming to an End at the University of California
Is the experiment over?
New Episodes of the Academic Freedom Podcast
Conversations on campus free speech with Timothy Zick, Jennifer Ruth, and Michael Berube
The Academic Freedom Podcast is Back!
The podcast relaunches with a conversation with Cary Nelson
Webinar Today on My New Book on the Impeachment Power
Hosted by the Society for the Rule of Law
Will Be Talking about Impeachment and Campus Free Speech in DC
Check it out live or online
What are the Limits on Faculty Speech?
My response to Harvard's Dean Lawrence Bobo
My New Book on Academic Freedom Now Available
You Can't Teach That! is in fine bookstores now
The Best of Reason: Commander in Chains: 7 Scenarios If Trump Is Jailed and Wins the Election
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
Commander in Chains: 7 Scenarios If Trump Is Jailed and Wins the Election
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
What If Trump is Convicted?
My new article in the print issue of Reason on how things could get weird
Indiana Bill Would Mandate "Intellectual Diversity" in the Classroom
This approach to doing so poses serious academic freedom problems
A Call for Institutional Neutrality
An open letter released today from the AFA, HxA, and FIRE
What Can Professors Say in Public?
My new article on the First Amendment and controversial faculty speech
Against Political Statements by Academic Departments
Universities should not be in the political activism business
Universities Must Make a Choice
Only one option will preserve the central mission of the university
Academic Freedom Alliance Protests USC Prof's Ban from Campus
University of Southern California appears to ignore its own policy to remove professor from campus over alleged speech
Academic Freedom Alliance Supporting Suit against the Mayo Clinic
Dr. Michael Joyner alleges the Mayo Institute tried to muzzle his public speech in his area of expertise
More Judicial Clerk Fallout from Campus Protests
Supporting Hamas butchery of Israeli civilians is beyond the pale
Slowing Down the Impeachment Drive in Wisconsin
An unusual move in an unusual impeachment
More on Controversial Books at Princeton
A member of Congress weighs in, and the university president speaks out
The Freedom to Assign Controversial Books
An Israeli minister demands that Princeton University prohibit a professor from assigning a controversial book
How Does Intramural Speech Fit Within the First Amendment?
A response to Porter v. North Carolina State University
Principles for a Campus Culture of Free Inquiry
A new statement worth reading for those concerned with academia
