Law, Courts & Regulations
Last week, a federal court in Austin, Texas issued an order blocking enforcement of a state law dubbed Texas’ “anti-BDS bill” by the governor. Texas House Bill 89, enacted in 2017, required government...
Named for famed Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who led Britain to victory in World War II, the Hartford-based Churchill Institute is dedicated to "the preservation, dissemination and extension of t...
Nancy Strapko (Credit: Jason Schreiber) PLYMOUTH, N.H., April 30, 2019 — Former Plymouth State University adjunct professor Nancy Strapko reached a settlement with the university after she was fired f...
Based on trial motions, it is clear that what will be argued to the jury in this case is that the school catered to and dictated a message their radical student base wanted them to do We have conclude...
The Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln. Just last year, several Nebraska Senate Republicans introduced a bill in the state legislature to prohibit state universities from disinviting speakers. Unfortun...
Gifford Hall dormitory on Middlebury's campus (Credit: Rania al-Bahara / Wikicommons) This needs to stop. In just the past 45 days, we’ve seen on-campus speeches across the country shut down, cancelle...
Justice Robert Jackson. (Library of Congress) Coming soon in FAN: "Hayden Covington, the man who argued 44 cases in the Supreme Court, most of them First Amendment cases" [T]he national picture drawn ...
Truly pathetic. Thursday, Facebook announced several right-wing provocateurs had been kicked off their platform. Louis Farrakhan, raging anti-semite and hate monger was lumped in with the rest of the ...
588 U.S. 18-302 (2019) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases Whether the bar of “immoral or scandalous” for registration of marks violates the First Amendment and he...
Harvard Yard at Harvard University. A recent dispute over Israeli Apartheid Week at Harvard University reveals that the university administration attempted to require a Palestinian rights student grou...
Roughly 1,500 issues of Colorado State’s student newspaper, The Collegian, went missing from stands located in the Lory Student Center. On Tuesday, Colorado State University’s student newspaper, The R...
“I’ve asked Steve to work with me toward future economic growth in our Country.” President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that conservative commentator Stephen Moore withdrew from consideration for...
Professor Eugene Volokh Credit: Jacob Fabricius/Zocalo Public Square Editor's Note: If you've missed previous issues of FAN or wish to review some of the various essays we've posted, or if you want to...
FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff has won the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation 2019 Annual First Amendment Award for book publishing for his book with social psychologist and NYU professor Jonathan Haidt...
Wake Forest University has promised to investigate an anonymous Instagram post from last Friday that appears to be a parody of a student government campaign ad. Why? Because the post says the hypothet...
Part of the incessant campaign to delegitimize Israel by stripping Jews of their history and misappropriating it to Palestinian Arabs. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.), who has a history of anti-Semitic tw...
FRANKFORT, Ky., March 26, 2019 — Today, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed HB 254 into law, protecting free speech at the commonwealth’s public colleges and universities by granting students the “broades...
Among the many responses to President Trump’s executive order on campus free speech last week, some of the lamest came from the major groups representing colleges and universities. Flipping open their...
Anti-Israel venom has normalized antisemitism, and it’s reached a tipping point. The NY Times cartoon is a sign it’s gone mainstream as well. It’s not like we haven’t been warning about this for the t...
Your weekly report on campus news. You know it’s election season when all the Democrats start talking about free college. This is also about helping Democrats. Maybe higher ed has other, more pressing...