Law, Courts & Regulations
In his new book, Christopher M. Palmer, MD, a Harvard psychiatrist and researcher, synthesizes decades of research relating to metabolic function and mental health to make the bold claim that metaboli...
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins. It is editorially independent from FIRE. Do you have an important idea about academic freedom...
Karin Hildebrand Lau / Shutterstock.com A bill is currently making its way through the California state legislature that would further entrench the state’s unconstitutional definition of sexual harass...
Iranian “operatives attempted to gather information about the Israelis and possibly lure them abroad with the intention of kidnapping or harming them.” Israel has foiled an elaborate Iranian plot to k...
In May 2021, I published a list of “ Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments ” with our friends over at Areo . The great Nadine Strossen — former president of the ACLU from 1991 to 2008, and one ...
Alex Staroseltsev / Shutterstock.com Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit stopped the University of Central Florida from enforcing an overbroad and viewpoint-based “discrimina...
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins. It is editorially independent from FIRE. "Justice Samuel Alito’s sweeping and blunt draft maj...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz: Iran “stands just a few weeks away from accumulating fissile material that will be sufficient for a first bomb.” While President Joe Biden’s administration continues to p...
Professor Aneil Rallin (Photo courtesy of Aneil Rallin) ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 11, 2022 — In a university course called Writing the Body, whose bodies are acceptable to write about? And who decides...
Georgetown University professor Josh Chafetz posted several tweets encouraging protests against the Supreme Court. (LapaiIr Krapai / Shutterstock.com) Ninety-nine days ago, Georgetown suspended Ilya S...
Former Indiana University Professor Mark McPhail faced retaliation for being outspoken on issues of race and diversity on campus, according to a new lawsuit. (Photo courtesy Indiana University) Mark M...
CriticalRace.org rolls out its coverage of the Top 50 Medical Schools: “The swiftness and depth to which race-focused social justice education has penetrated medical schools reflects the broader distu...
Texas A&M administrators have failed to explain why they are taking over a student-run orientation program and holding funds intended for LGBTQ student group. (Hussam Al-Mashhadani / Shutterstock.com)...
DCStockPhotography / Shutterstock.com The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced late last year that it planned to release a notice of proposed rulemaking for Title IX by April. N...
There is seemingly good news in the Sunshine State after three professors at the University of Florida concluded that the university and state officials did not order the destruction of Covid-19 resea...
“Protests over soaring food prices continued in several cities in Iran on Saturday.” Rising prices and food shortages have triggered widespread protests in Iran, with video footage showing demonstrato...
The following is an excerpt from a blog by FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff and Copy Editor Talia Barnes recently published in the digital publication Persuasion . Regulations on campus “ hate sp...
The California Institute of Technology's Graduate Student Council has said that it will not change a policy conditions event funding on conformity to the college's values.(Shutterstock.com) After a le...
Northern Michigan University retaliated against a student who distributed a mental health survey to students. (Snehit Photo / Shutterstock.com) Following the suicide of a fellow Northern Michigan Univ...
Legal Insurrection Foundation Files Supreme Court Brief In Support Of Asian Students Challenging Race-Based Affirmative Action The biggest case this U.S. Supreme Court term is abortion. The biggest ca...