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24 Nov 2023, 8:25 am by Ilya Somin
It's actually just one of several Keith Whittington books that are must-reads for any serious student of judicial review. [read post]
16 Nov 2023, 12:10 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[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. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 10:12 am by Eugene Volokh
As Keith Whittington noted, some judges are refusing to hire students who they see as endorsing murder of civilians (or threatening to withdraw offers to such students): Judges are looking at student actions in the wake of October 7th and drawing a line in the sand for those who would want to clerk for them. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 7:43 am by Keith E. Whittington
[Supporting Hamas butchery of Israeli civilians is beyond the pale] The extraordinary outpouring of support on American university campuses for the events of October 7th has, unsurprisingly, led to some backlash from alumni, donors, and future employers. [read post]
28 Oct 2023, 9:01 am by Paul Caron
Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Could Yale's Hiring Of Princeton's Keith Whittington Signal A Shift In Legal Ed's Alleged Hostility Toward Conservative Professors? [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 10:00 am by Scott Fruehwald
Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Could Yale's Hiring Of Princeton's Keith Whittington Signal A Shift In Legal Ed's Alleged Hostility Toward Conservative Professors? [read post]
23 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Paul Caron
Last year around this time, I blogged a piece by a University of Queensland law professor noting that the University of San Diego Law School had been able to "punch well above its weight" because of the ideological diversity of its faculty. [read post]
18 Oct 2023, 1:03 pm by Eugene Volokh
Our peer-reviewed Journal of Free Speech Law, which is now nearly three years old, has published 65 articles, including by Jack Balkin (Yale), Mark Lemley (Stanford), Jeremy Waldron (NYU), Cynthia Estlund (NYU), Christopher Yoo (Penn), Danielle Citron (Virginia), Keith Whittington (Princeton, moving to Yale) (forthcoming), and many others—both prominent figures in the field and emerging young scholars (including ones who didn't have a tenure-track academic appointment). [read post]
16 Oct 2023, 10:18 am by Keith E. Whittington
After spending more than two decades in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, I'm pleased to announce that I will joining the faculty of Yale Law School in the fall of 2024. [read post]
16 Sep 2023, 5:00 am by Keith E. Whittington
[An unusual move in an unusual impeachment] In a hotly contested election, the voters of Wisconsin flipped control of the state supreme court from the Republicans to the Democrats. [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 1:49 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[A member of Congress weighs in, and the university president speaks out] Before the start of the Fall semester, I noted that an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University was mired in a controversy over a book that she had assigned for an upcoming class. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 5:50 am by Keith E. Whittington
[An Israeli minister demands that Princeton University prohibit a professor from assigning a controversial book] It is not every day that a government minister writes to an American university president demanding that a book be immediately removed "from the curriculum of any of its courses" and "conduct a thorough review of the academic materials" used in its classes. [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 11:33 am by Keith E. Whittington
An encouraging sign for the future of American higher education has been the emergence of local faculty groups organizing themselves to advance free speech principles at their particular institution. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 7:28 am by Keith E. Whittington
[A new statement worth reading for those concerned with academia] A group of scholars interested in free inquiry and the future of higher education met in Princeton last spring and began a conversation about what principles ought to guide a well-functioning scholarly institution dedicated to the mission of the preservation and advancement of knowledge. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 5:10 am by Keith E. Whittington
[State tries to bar Stanford researchers from testifying against it] An interesting new expert witness controversy has broken out; this time in California. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 7:38 am by Keith E. Whittington
[Professor suspended for criticizing policies of Texas lieutenant governor] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a public letter to the Texas A&M University System regarding its suspension and investigation of Prof. [read post]
16 Jul 2023, 8:44 am by Keith E. Whittington
I am pleased to see that my latest article on the efforts of state legislatures to restrict what ideas professors can endorse in the classroom has now been published. [read post]