Law, Courts & Regulations
Mary Griffin is a Senior Program Counsel on the Policy Reform team. A 2017 graduate of Villanova Law, Mary has spent nearly 10 years collaborating with college administrators to revise policies to ens...
Scott Gerber is a law professor at Ohio Northern University. Following Professor Scott Gerber’s vocal opposition to his school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, Ohio Northern University ord...
As digital editor, Jordan manages the front end of FIRE's website, coordinating with staff across departments to edit and publish digital content, and optimizes the website to improve overall search r...
Remember to *always* take BLS reports with a grain of salt. Always. The January jobs report came out today! Let me show you the most important stat: Revisions to total employment in 2024 went down by ...
Ben Von Klemperer / Shutterstock.com What happens to freedom of the press when the president can bully media outlets he doesn’t like into paying big money to end his meritless lawsuits against them? B...
If it chills, curtails, or compels expression, it's a free speech problem. Regardless of where you stand on “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, on college campuses, it’s clear that it’s a cont...
ModQuaint / Shutterstock.com Pro-Palestinian encampment at Harvard University in April 2024. Just one day after President Trump took office, Harvard agreed to settle two lawsuits brought against it by...
ICC “has engaged in illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel.” The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a purportedly noble entity that was at risk of being weapo...
Andrew Leyden / Shutterstock.com George Washington University Police tussle with protesters who tried to raise the Palestinian flag on campus on May 2, 2024. This op-ed originally appeared in MSNBC on...
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced today it agrees with a federal court ruling that appropriately found the Biden-era Title IX rules to unconstitutionally restrict st...
Cristi Dangeorge / Shutterstock.com Since taking office for his second term on Jan. 20, President Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders, including several implicating the First Amendment and f...
Move follows tragic passenger plane – helicopter collision in DC and temporary outage of its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) systems this weekend. During the news blitz of last weekend, what may have ...
Richmond, Virginia Search all Schools University of Richmond has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous pol...
Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com For millennia, medical students have taken the Hippocratic Oath, solemnly pledging to prioritize the well-being of patients and “abstain from whatever is deleterious and ...
A new poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression finds that conservative and very conservative Americans have more confidence that President Trump will protect their First Amendment...
Court: “These events took place in 2023—not 1943—and Title VI places responsibility on colleges and universities to protect their Jewish students from harassment, not on those students to hide themsel...
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30, 2025 —A new poll finds that confidence in the future of free speech in America and belief in Donald Trump’s commitment to the First Amendment both saw an uptick, at least among ...
Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock.com Thousands pro-Palestinian protesters gather at an encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles on April 29, 2024. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an...
Created using Midjourney This op-ed originally appeared in The Dispatch on Jan. 28, 2025. J. Ann Selzer planned to step back from election polling at the end of 2024. She had spent three decades worki...
“Kicking off our start of Black History Month at EIU by raising up the Black Lives Matter flag!” Is BLM even still a thing? You hardly ever hear even Democrats talking about it anymore. Campus Reform ...