Law, Courts & Regulations
Marcio Jose Bastos Silva/ Shutterstock.com Harvard University’s ill-conceived decision to blacklist students who join off-campus, single-sex social organizations continues to backfire, forcing adminis...
His trials began with a police bust at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco in October 1961, and ended with an obscenity conviction in New York in November 1964. Stand-up comedy legend Lenny Bruce under...
Is edgy comedy on life support? In Can We Take a Joke? , top comedians like Gilbert Gottfried, Penn Jillette, Lisa Lampanelli, and Adam Carolla join together to explore what happens when comedy, hyper...
Another anti-Israel charade from a group that isn’t Jewish and isn’t for Peace We wrote recently about the Black Lives matter platform statement (under the name MB4L: Movement for Black Lives) and, in...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of this week’s “Best of The Torch ” retrospective, where we search the archives to bring you FIRE stories worth a second look. This one originally ran May 11, 2016....
A pair of articles published online by The New York Times today — titled “ Fighting for the First Amendment on America’s Campuses ” and “ Want a Copy of the Constitution? Now, That’s Controversial! ” ...
At one time, the University of Mississippi was the setting for one of the most infamous efforts to keep public schools racially segregated . Today, with more than 50 years separating it from that grim...
No longer can Jewish Community groups like the ADL claim they are unaware. For years we have been documenting the efforts by anti-Israel activists to stoke racial hatred of Israel through the concept ...
One brisk fall night, my friends and I donned ties and blazers in anticipation. An all-male final club had invited us to an event and dictated our evening’s attire. Dozens of young men populated the s...
Harvard University’s announcement that it will blacklist students who join single-gender social organizations—banning them from holding leadership positions in Recognized Independent Student Organizat...
Orhan Cam / Shutterstock.com Late last month, a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs ’ Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management provided ye...
Blue Lives Matter. Somerville, Massachusetts is an interesting city just outside of Boston. The densely occupied community is home to lots of old school Boston blue-collar types while also being extre...
Last month, documents provided in response to a public records request by Heat Street suggested that the University of Northern Colorado (UNC)’s “ Bias Response Team ” improperly intervened to instruc...
Last week, the Aspen Ideas Festival held a panel discussion on “Academic Freedom, Safe Spaces, Dissent, and Dignity,” which included remarks from FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff, Yale Law School...
The University of Northern Colorado (UNC) appears to have investigated two professors for asking students to simply consider all sides of the debate over today’s most controversial political and socia...
Anti-Israel activists exploit U.S. racial tensions and Black LIves Matter movement. At group calling itself Atlanta is Ready (#ATLisREADY), aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement, recently issue...
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2016—A former University of Virginia School of Law student filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Department of Education’s unlawful mandate that colleges abandon due proce...
University of Virginia Search all Cases On June 16, 2016, a former University of Virginia School of Law student filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Department of Education’s (ED’s) unlawful mandat...
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! In a video now available on C-SPAN , Emory University School of Law professor Alexander “Sasha” Volokh explains FIRE’s stance on free speech at private and p...
Pete Patterson and John Ohlendorf are attorneys at the Washington, D.C. law firm Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, which filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee supporti...