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Even though freedom of speech became established law in 1791, it would take more than one hundred years for the legal principles of freedom of speech to coalesce into coherent jurisprudence. Freedom o...
Cornell University Search all Cases On January 11, 2024, Cornell University announced that a student Maria Lima Valdez “will be held fully accountable and appropriately sanctioned” for her “heinous” a...
Indiana University Search all Cases In December 2023, Indiana University told Palestinian artist Samia Halaby it was canceling a planned exhibit of her work at the university’s Eskenazi Museum of Art,...
Hunter College, City University of New York Search all Cases On November 14, 2023, Hunter College canceled a faculty-hosted screening of an on-campus, open-to-the-public screening of the film “Israeli...
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Note: This is an unedited rush transcript. Please check any quotations against the audio recording . Nico Perrino: You’re listening to So To Speak, the free speech podcast brought to you by FIRE, the ...
Free speech plays a critical role in higher education. Free expression and academic freedom are at the core of a public university’s truth-seeking mission, which, in turn, plays a vital part in preser...
This research documents efforts since 2000 to get campus administrators, publishers, or public officials to punish scholars at U.S. colleges and universities for expressive activity that is, or at a p...
Dear [INSTITUTION PRESIDENT], In January 2015, the Committee on Freedom of Expression at the University of Chicago issued a powerful new statement on the importance of freedom of expression on campus,...
Montclair State University Search all Cases Following an extended dispute between Montclair State University's Student Government Association and The Montclarion over the lack of press access to close...
Rutgers University Search all Cases The Daily Targum , the student newspaper at Rutgers University and one of the oldest student newspapers in the country, had been funded through a recurring referend...
Fill out the form below to request more information about speech codes at your college or university. FIRE defines “speech codes” as written policies regulating expression at colleges and universities...
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Colleges sometimes hamper student groups hosting outside speakers by levying additional security fees for speakers deemed to be controversial, a practice that directly conflicts with First Amendment s...
Abuses by England’s King John cause a revolt by nobles, who compel him to recognize rights for both noblemen and ordinary Englishmen. This document, known as the Magna Carta, establishes the principle...
Planning a campus protest — or already part of one? To help get to know your rights, here are some answers to questions we’ve seen come up time and again in over two and a half decades of defending st...
Think you can spot censorship when you see it? It might not be as easy as you think! Censorship does not always take the form of a villainous administrator seizing copies of a student newspaper or rai...
408 U.S. 753 (1972) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases No. 71-16. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 18, 1972. Decided June 29, 1972. APPEAL FROM THE UN...
Glendora, California Search all Schools Citrus College has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form . Citrus ...
Modesto, California Search all Schools Modesto Junior College has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form . ...