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6 Jun 2016, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
of the Talents, (UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 16-10 (2016)).Douglas Laycock & Steven [read post]
13 Sep 2024, 5:01 am by Steven Collis
[As long as academic institutions place social justice goals ahead of truth seeking and knowledge creation, they will lose the respect of the public and will not live up to their potential.] For my last post in this series related to my new book Habits of a Peacemaker: 10 Habits to Change Our Potentially Toxic Conversations into Healthy Dialogues, I turn to the role of institutions of higher education. I spend much of Chapter 2 in Habits talking both about how humanity generates knowledge and how… [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 10:51 am by Holland & Hart
By Steven Collis Recent news stories describe the tension between Muslim workers seeking multiple prayer [read post]
12 Sep 2024, 5:01 am by Steven Collis
[Social media poses problems far more serious than misinformation campaigns, but solutions consistent with the First Amendment are not clear.] We have heard much lately from folks like Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge regarding the harms of smartphones and social media. These include a rise in anxiety, suicidality, and depression among young people, especially girls. They also include addiction for most adults and an increased polarization of society generally. But many of the solutions offered for… [read post]
11 Sep 2024, 5:01 am by Steven Collis
[The best practitioners of the freedom of speech are those who do not assume that everyone who disagrees with them operates from bad motives.] In my continuing series related to my new book Habits of a Peacemaker, this next post seems especially apropos since today is the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Peacemakers—defined for my purposes as those among us who can have productive conversations about hard topics—generally assume the best about the people with whom they are… [read post]
9 Sep 2024, 5:59 am by Steven Collis
[The Israel-Hamas war has sparked ideological swaps in many places regarding freedom of speech, confirming more than ever why we need neutral free speech principles.] With the launch of my new book Habits of a Peacemaker: Ten Habits to Change Our Potentially Toxic Conversations into Healthy Dialogues, I will be guest blogging here on some themes from the book. Its aim is to provide practical skills to help readers become the type of people who can use their free speech rights effectively to have… [read post]
10 Sep 2024, 7:59 am by Ellena Erskine
Act waiver (Lesley Clark, E&E News) The Lesson From Supreme Court Justices Changing Their Minds (Steven [read post]
2 Feb 2026, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Epistemic Injustice in Africa: A Philosophical Dialogue with the Science of Religion, (November 17, 2025).Steven [read post]
10 Sep 2024, 5:01 am by Steven Collis
[For all of the commentary West Virginia Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette has received over the years, perhaps one of the more stunning aspects of that case was two Supreme Court Justices changing their minds.] The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6, "Be Open to Change," of my book Habits of a Peacemaker: In the introduction, I mentioned the 1943 Barnette case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that school districts could not force Jehovah's Witness children to say the Pledge of… [read post]
8 Mar 2022, 6:00 am by Josh Blackman
The professor will largely be independent but will partner with the Clinic director (Professor Steven [read post]