Law, Courts & Regulations
This research documents the ways and reasons that scholars have faced calls for sanction; how scholars and institutional administrators have responded to different forms of targeting; and what (if any...
University of North Carolina - Wilmington Search all Cases A student at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington sent an email to Professor Mike Adams and others blaming the September 11 th 2001...
Hartford, Connecticut Search all Schools University of Hartford has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form ...
University of Hartford Search all Cases On May 11, 2022, a University of Hartford administrator sent team coaches an email about individual and team consequences for “any disruption” by student-athlet...
New College of Florida Search all Cases On June 6, 2023, New College of Florida Trustee Christopher Rufo tweeted that visiting history professor Erik Wallenberg had been non-renewed because of his tea...
Georgetown University Search all Cases In an April 15, 2021, class, American government professor Michele Swers read from the landmark Supreme Court case on incitement, Brandenburg v. Ohio , reciting...
Cypress College Search all Cases On April 30, 2021, Cypress College placed adjunct professor Faryha Salim on administrative leave after a video of the professor’s exchange with a student during a Huma...
Iowa State University Search all Cases After Iowa’s legislature adopted a statute barring certain “concepts” from mandatory trainings provided by public universities, Iowa State University issued guid...
St. Philip's College Search all Cases On January 27, 2023, Professor Johnson Varkey was fired from St. Philip’s College, allegedly for his in-class statements concerning biological sex. On June 28, FI...
San Antonio, Texas Search all Schools St. Philip's College has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form . St....
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WASHINGTON, January 20, 2009 — This Inauguration Day, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has sent President Barack Obama an open letter requesting that, as a constitutional lawye...
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search all Cases In fall 2020, the UNC School of Medicine announced recommendations from a social justice task force report conditioning tenure and promotion ...
Georgetown University Search all Cases During the 2015 fall semester, Georgetown University Law Center’s Office of Student Life (OSL) prevented a group of students supporting the 2016 presidential cam...
Political speech is essential for democratic participation, but all too often — especially during an election year — rules related to political speech on campus are misunderstood, misstated, and misa...
University of Rhode Island Search all Cases In May 2018, FIRE wrote to the University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate on behalf of a coalition of student organizations — including the College Democra...
American University Search all Cases In the fall of 2015, American University’s (AU) Office of University Center & Student Activities denied a request by the group “Students for Rand”—which supports t...
University of Oklahoma Search all Cases Weeks prior to the 2008 presidential election, the University of Oklahoma (OU) notified students and faculty that "the forwarding of political humor/commentary"...
“We all need to speak up when someone tries to take our rights away — our voice is way too powerful to let anyone shut it down.” — FIRE plaintiff Kim Diei Concerned that your right to freedom of expre...
Des Moines, Iowa Search all Schools Drake University has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form . Drake Uni...