Law, Courts & Regulations
This catch-all category includes policies that attempt to regulate student behavior or expression, but unwittingly impose on protected speech. These policies can fall under a variety of topics includi...
Colleges and universities are free to encourage students to live up to aspirational standards such as respect and civility, but they may not require them to do so. Consult FIRE’s Model Speech Policies...
Many colleges and universities have enacted policies aimed at eliminating “bias” and “ hate speech ” from campus, frequently interfering with student expression due to their broad definitions and thei...
Sanctions dynamics and regulatory challenges must be tackled for the sake of Syrians. Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect the vi...
Upcoming events at FIRE 2023 FIRE Faculty Network Conference (10/19/2023) Institutional Neutrality and the Kalven Report (10/16/2023) Is Freedom of Speech, Free? A Conversation on Cancel Culture and D...
Our vision is an America in which people unapologetically support the right of others to freely express views that are different from their own, and expect their laws, norms, and educational instituti...
College faculty have a key role to play in ensuring that free speech and academic freedom are protected at their institutions. FIRE can help you get involved and connect you with like-minded free spee...
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff, discuss a judge granting a preliminary inj...
Nicholas Bagley, Professor of Law at Michigan Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Abundance Inst...
On Friday, March 6, Lawfare , the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy, and the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology will host a one-day convening marking the 40th anniversary...
The Lawfare Institute—publisher of information and insight at the intersection of national security, law, and policy—is now accepting Summer 2026 internship applications. The selected candidate will h...
Judge Paul Friedman hears a motion to compel compliance with his order to restore press access to the Pentagon. Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia smiles th...
A recent hearing offered the clearest indication yet that Judge Boulee might rule against Fulton County's motion for return of property. On March 27, U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee held a day-long ev...
President Trump has cited Article II to justify everything from deportations to firing civil servants—these assertions present a challenge to constitutional order. During his first term, President Tru...
Since last May, the Department of Justice has been trying to acquire the voter rolls of every state and the District of Columbia. Forty-eight states have received requests—all but North Dakota (which ...
President Trump may be able to recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea—but that doesn’t mean he can make Congress play along. As part of its push for an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, the Trum...
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Natalie Orpett and Eric Ciaramella to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including: In object lessons, B...
Okay, yeah, it’s a weird slogan. The Situation yesterday vented its spleen at the coming revocation of protective status for Ukrainians in the United States. After writing yesterday’s column, I got on...
Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in the Eastern District of New York has ruled that the government's request for assistance from Apple to extract data from a phone operating iOS 7—an older operating s...
Anthropic has given its AI the right to end conversations when it is “distressed.” But doing so could be akin to unintended suicide. On Aug.15, the artificial intelligence (AI) lab Anthropic announced...