Law, Courts & Regulations
Harvard students could soon be banned from joining any private social organization or club . If the recommendations contained in a just-released, 22-page report are enacted, Harvard would extend previ...
A recent nationwide outbreak of faculty censorship has left adjunct faculty members — who lack the formal protections of tenure — particularly vulnerable when publicly expressing their views on contem...
On June 16, Trinity College professor Johnny Eric Williams shared , via his personal Facebook page, an anonymous writer’s controversial essay urging oppressed minorities to “do nothing” to help if the...
“the source of the new preoccupation with microaggressions” Our friend Christina Hoff Sommers has written a new column at the American Enterprise Institute which focuses on the current threat to free ...
In its “ Anti-Harassment Protection and Academic Freedom ” policy, Linfield College states that “[a]ll members of the college are entitled to use speech to convey disagreement, agreement, inquiry, or ...
Governor John Bel Edwards vetoed HB 269 yesterday, a bill that would have better protected free speech on public college campuses in Louisiana. The bill was sent to Gov. Edwards with strong bipartisan...
World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, The Future of Higher Education Drew Gilpin Faust, William D. Green (8410821795), size by FIRE, CC BY-SA 2.0 This classic FIRE headline marks the news, w...
JVP rolls out campaign to blame Israel and Jewish groups for U.S. policing problems in minority communities In dozens of posts we’ve highlighted how the anti-Zionist, non-Jewish group “Jewish Voice fo...
The fight to defend free speech just got a boost at Georgetown University. FIRE is pleased to announce that last week Georgetown joined a growing list of colleges and universities that have adopted po...
(Lawren Simmons / Special to the Sun / USA TODAY NETWORK Student protestors wave signs and chant as they enter Sen. Ben Sasse's open forum discussion at Emerson Alumni Hall at the University of Florid...
Is hate speech protected by the First Amendment? In a Los Angeles Times op-ed yesterday, Ken White breaks down some common arguments put forth in favor of censorship that, while touching on the moral ...
Prof. Bret Weinstein’s attempt to clear himself of false charges of racism used as proof of his racism Bret Weinstein is a professor at Evergreen State College in Washington State who ran afoul of stu...
Marcio Jose Bastos Silva/ Shutterstock.com Having spent the last decade defending student and faculty rights, I’ve learned a couple of things about exactly what type of campus civil liberties violatio...
Drexel University Associate Professor George Ciccariello-Maher is no stranger to controversy. Last Christmas Eve, he posted a tweet to his private Twitter account that read: “All I Want for Christmas ...
Sound familiar? It is much like the series of events that transpired on Yale University’s campus in fall 2015 after Erika Christakis, then-associate master of Yale’s Silliman College, responded to an ...
Erin Morrow Hawley is Associate Professor of Law and the University of Missouri School of Law. She filed an amicus brief for the General Council of the Assemblies of God in support of the church in Tr...
Yesterday, Harvard celebrated its 366th commencement, and those watching in the audience and at home were treated to an ironic display as Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust gave an address in full su...
Late last month, Patricia Hamill of the law firm Conrad O’Brien filed a lawsuit against the University of Notre Dame on behalf of a pseudonymous “John Doe” plaintiff, alleging that Notre Dame unfairly...
Nagel Photography / Shutterstock.com Last week, FIRE was happy to report that a comprehensive campus free speech bill was signed into law in Tennessee by Governor Bill Haslam after receiving overwhelm...
“Eight out of 10 voters went to the beach, went to the river, went to go eat, went to go hang out, went to church, but they sure didn’t go out to vote” Sunday, Puerto Ricans headed to the polls to cas...