Law, Courts & Regulations
Because the University is committed to free and open inquiry in all matters, it guarantees all members of the University community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, an...
University of San Diego Search all Cases On March 10, 2021, Thomas Smith, a law professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, posted on his personal blog an excerpt from a Wall Street Journa...
San Diego, California Search all Schools University of San Diego has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form...
Yale University Search all Cases On October 30, 2015, Erika Christakis, associate master of Yale University’s Silliman College , responded to an email from the school’s Intercultural Affairs Council t...
Rutgers University - Camden Search all Cases In the fall 2020 semester, the Rutgers Law School, Camden Campus Student Bar Association amended its constitution to require all student groups to hold eve...
Camden, New Jersey Search all Schools Rutgers University - Camden has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request for...
Saint Vincent College Search all Cases On April 19, 2022, Saint Vincent College announced a new policy requiring the college president and his cabinet to approve all college-sponsored speaker appearan...
Latrobe, Pennsylvania Search all Schools Saint Vincent College has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form ....
Use: Beyond use during digital or in-person orientations, the video can serve as a resource on university web pages explaining student speech rights and free speech defense strategies. Content: D...
Use: The video adaptation of this lesson and the script can be used during digital or in-person journalism program orientations, class lectures, or as part of remarks while onboarding new student news...
For years, FIRE has been cataloging speech codes — policies that impermissibly regulate or restrict student expression — at hundreds of American colleges and universities. This Model Speech Policies p...
Kirkwood Community College Search all Cases In August 2019, President Trump tweeted that he was considering designating “ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-figh...
This research documents the ways and reasons that scholars have faced calls for sanction; how scholars and institutional administrators have responded to different forms of targeting; and what (if any...
University of North Carolina - Wilmington Search all Cases A student at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington sent an email to Professor Mike Adams and others blaming the September 11 th 2001...
Hartford, Connecticut Search all Schools University of Hartford has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form ...
University of Hartford Search all Cases On May 11, 2022, a University of Hartford administrator sent team coaches an email about individual and team consequences for “any disruption” by student-athlet...
New College of Florida Search all Cases On June 6, 2023, New College of Florida Trustee Christopher Rufo tweeted that visiting history professor Erik Wallenberg had been non-renewed because of his tea...
Georgetown University Search all Cases In an April 15, 2021, class, American government professor Michele Swers read from the landmark Supreme Court case on incitement, Brandenburg v. Ohio , reciting...
Cypress College Search all Cases On April 30, 2021, Cypress College placed adjunct professor Faryha Salim on administrative leave after a video of the professor’s exchange with a student during a Huma...
Iowa State University Search all Cases After Iowa’s legislature adopted a statute barring certain “concepts” from mandatory trainings provided by public universities, Iowa State University issued guid...