Law, Courts & Regulations
Sam joined FIRE in 2025 following a clerkship with Judge Gerald McHugh of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Originally from Philadelphia, Sam graduated from Wesleyan Un...
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The first step to ensuring that student rights are protected on campus is to find out if your school has policies that restrict speech. Policies that prohibit or restrict speech protected by the First...
Though the threat of climate change has come sharply into focus in recent decades, humans have long endeavored to shape and reshape the natural world, carving it up and making sense of it through tech...
University administrators can be powerful allies when it comes to protecting and defending student expression on campus. Whether you are trying to plan an event, host a speaker, or reform a university...
Editor’s Note: The Biden administration’s decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine produced reactions ranging from “finally” to sharp criticisms that the United States would be complicit in the d...
Joshua Geltzer is the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor at the White House, part of the National Security Council staff. He is the president's point person on the reauthorization battle surrounding Sec...
As the demand to cast a regulatory net over digital industries has grown in recent years, one call in particular has emerged from the noise: support for the creation of a digital regulator to do the j...
On Dec. 27, the Colorado Republican Party asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Colorado Supreme Court’s Dec. 19 ruling that former President Donald Trump is disqualified from holding the office ...
For the past several months, Ukraine has been engaged in a grinding counteroffensive aimed at retaking lost territory from Russian invaders. Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky joined Pr...
On September 28, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board , or PCLOB, issued its long-awaited report on FISA Sec. 702, a surveillance authority that is set to expire on December 31 if it is not...
A large dam on the Dnipro River has been destroyed, causing massive flooding and a dangerous environmental catastrophe in southern Ukraine. The Ukrainians are blaming the Russians; the Russians are bl...
On May 10, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment for Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), for “devising and executing” a fraudulent scheme to raise money for his congressional campaign in September an...
On Aug. 14, District Attorney Fani Willis indicted Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia. The indictment against Trump and 18 others alleges 41 counts of racketeering and unlawful interference with G...
The former president is, to put it mildly, enmeshed in quite a few legal proceedings. They involve both criminal and civil cases, span a variety of alleged acts, and are brought in both federal and st...
A UN secretary-general has not explicitly invoked Article 99, described as the secretary-general’s “ most powerful tool ,” since 1989. On Dec. 6, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took...
A detailed look back at the computer intrusion that features prominently in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s election interference indictment Shortly before noon on Jan. 7, 2021, with the...
Military necessity, humanity, and the complicated realities of conflict regulation. Ukraine is now armed with U.S. cluster munitions or, to be more precise, dual-purpose improved conventional munition...
How community social cohesion shapes population displacement, one of today’s greatest global challenges. One of the many devastating consequences of war is population displacement, with the number of ...
Unless policymakers act, increasing threats to public officials will normalize political violence and stymie civic engagement and democratic processes. A woman in Texas left a message on a federal jud...