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28 Aug 2023, 6:57 am
[A response to Porter v. North Carolina State University] I noted last month that a Fourth Circuit panel had handed down a divided decision in Porter v. North Carolina State University. The case involved a tenured statistics professor in the college of education who was removed from the program in higher education after a number of complaints he had made about the program becoming too focused on social justice. The Porter panel denied his claim that the speech for which he was being punished was… [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 5:30 am
[All eggs are in one basket in Ohio] Republican state legislatures across the country are debating significant reforms in state university systems. Some of the reform proposals are fairly modest, but others would substantially transform how higher education work in public universities. In several instances, those bills are now moving toward some resolution, and so a series of posts checking in on where things stand seems in order. I discussed North Dakota and Texas in earlier posts. Texas is still… [read post]
18 Aug 2022, 8:00 am
[An interesting new addition to the flurry of lawsuits over the First Amendment implications of social media] The question of whether then-President Donald Trump could block people on Twitter focused a lot more attention on a curious little world of how politicians behave on social media. In our brave new world, government officials have social media accounts, as do governmental entities. Government officials and governmental entities are bound by the First Amendment. Blocking people on Twitter… [read post]
8 Mar 2022, 8:27 am
[Philosophy professor suspended from teaching his class on racism for showing a slide with examples of racial epithets] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a public letter to San Diego State University calling on the university to reaffirm the academic freedom of philosophy professor J. Angelo Corlett. SDSU removed Corlett from the classroom after students complained that he had shown a slide with examples of racial epithets in his class on Philosophy, Racism and Justice and his class on critical… [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 12:48 pm
[The AFA calls on GULC to end its investigation of Ilya Shapiro] The Academic Freedom Alliance has released a public letter to the Georgetown University Law Center objecting to its treatment of a senior lecturer. Ilya Shapiro was director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. It was recently announced that Shapiro had been appointed to be the executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and a senior lecturer at the Georgetown University… [read post]
14 Nov 2023, 11:49 am
[Dr. Michael Joyner alleges the Mayo Institute tried to muzzle his public speech in his area of expertise] The Academic Freedom Alliance announced today that Michael Joyner, M.D. is suing the Mayo Clinic for violating his contractually protected academic freedom. The AFA had provided financial support in Joyner's efforts to resolve this problem internally, and it is now supporting his state suit. In June, the AFA sent a public letter to the Mayo Clinic complaining about its treatment of Dr.… [read post]
17 May 2023, 6:30 am
Keith E. [read post]
22 Feb 2024, 12:31 pm
I get "variety" in my originalism class if I teach Rappaport, Baude, Barnett, Balkin and Whittington [read post]
27 May 2025, 7:00 am
[An explainer from Cass Sunstein] A new episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast has been released. The podcast is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Alliance and the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School. This episode features a conversation with Cass Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. His recent working paper, "'Our Money or Your… [read post]
7 Jan 2026, 7:53 am
[New "gender ideology" rule has predictable results] After a student posted a viral video of an argument with a Texas A&M instructor about the content of an English class, Texas politicians went ballistic. Soon the instructor was suspended and the university president was fired. Last month, the university regents adopted a policy banning courses that "advocate race or gender ideology" and requiring university approval for any exemptions for materials that serve "a… [read post]
12 Apr 2023, 5:00 am
[Legislative showdown looming on tenure and academic freedom] Republican state legislatures across the country are debating significant reforms in state university systems. Some of the reform proposals are fairly modest, but others would substantially transform how higher education work in public universities. In several instances, those bills are now moving toward some resolution, and so a series of posts checking in on where things stand seems in order. Next up is Texas. Last year the powerful… [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 5:22 pm
Kinkopf and Keith E. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 12:54 pm
[North Dakota attack on tenure barely defeated] Republican state legislatures across the country are debating significant reforms in state university systems. Some of the reform proposals are fairly modest, but others would substantially transform how higher education work in public universities. In several instances, those bills are now moving toward some resolution, and so a series of posts checking in on where things stand seems in order. First up is North Dakota. As I've noted before, North… [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 1:52 pm
[The University of Idaho's guidance to faculty on classroom discussion makes plain a First Amendment problem] The general counsel of the University of Idaho issued a guidance memo to university employees regarding the implications of the state's new abortion law for university operations. That memo told professors that they should maintain instructional neutrality in any classroom discussions relating to abortion if they wished to avoid the possibility of criminal prosecution. I wrote… [read post]
11 Dec 2021, 9:52 am
General Landry is perfectly free to express his own disagreements with Professor Mann's tweet," Whittington [read post]
22 May 2025, 7:38 am
[Can Trump do that, and what would it mean?] A new episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast has been released. The podcast is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Alliance and the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School. This episode features a conversation with Daniel Hemel on President Donald Trump's threat to rescind the tax exempt status of Harvard University. Hemel is a professor of law at New York University Law School, with an expertise in taxation, nonprofit… [read post]
16 Nov 2023, 12:10 pm
[University of Southern California appears to ignore its own policy to remove professor from campus over alleged speech] The Academic Freedom Alliance today released a letter sent to the University of Southern California over its suspension of Professor John Strauss. Professor Strauss briefly exchanged words with pro-Palestinian protesters on campus. There is a factual dispute over what exactly was said, but in any version of the exchange Professor Strauss engaged in lawfully protected political… [read post]
5 Jun 2019, 6:30 am
grand scheme of things and (2) that he has fallen prey to what I have in my own mind named the “Whittington [read post]
20 Feb 2017, 3:14 am
Kinkopf and Keith E. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 6:13 am
Wade Should Have Said (2005)Sotirios Barber and James E. [read post]
