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5 Oct 2021, 5:30 am
[What should you do if the mob tries to cancel you?] [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 2:25 pm
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has posted a faculty letter in support of Stephen Kershnar, the philosophy professor currently barred from the SUNY Fredonia campus for publicly engaging in a philosophical discussion of the immorality of sexual acts between children and adults. [read post]
1 Dec 2021, 7:26 am
[Academic Freedom Alliance rebukes UIC for its treatment of Professor Jason Kilborn] Nearly a year ago, University of Illinois at Chicago law professor Jason Kilborn came under criticism from students, administrators and colleagues for including a hypothetical on his civil procedure exam involving an individual telling an investigating lawyer that former co-workers "expressed their anger at Plaintiff, calling her a "n____" and "b____" (profane expressions for African… [read post]
30 Nov 2021, 8:47 am
[English professor threatened with discipline for reading aloud from Randall Kennedy's article on the n-word] The Academic Freedom Alliance has released a public letter to the University of Rochester objecting to the treatment of an English professor there. [read post]
16 Oct 2023, 10:18 am
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]
25 Apr 2022, 8:05 am
[Religion and philosophy professor removed from directing a scholarly center for inviting Peter Singer to give a public lecture.] [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 5:00 am
[The First Amendment should not be a viable defense in an impeachment trial] There has been an active debate on the pages of the Volokh Conspiracy over whether the First Amendment should be understood to give President Trump any shelter from the article of impeachment adopted by the House of Representatives in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol. [read post]
28 Feb 2023, 5:06 am
[A poorly drafted and conceptually ambitious upending of norms of state university independence] Over in Chronicle of Higher Education, I have a new piece examining HB 999 in the Florida legislature and its implications for the future of Republican politics around higher education. [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 4:42 am
[The AFA objects] The Academic Freedom Alliance sent a letter to Texas Tech University protesting its suspension and investigation of Education Professor Jairo Funez-Flores. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 9:18 am
[So says the DC Circuit Court] The D.C. [read post]
20 Mar 2021, 8:29 am
On March 8, the Academic Freedom Alliance launched publicly. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 2:29 pm
[Federal judge issues a strongly worded opinion on Florida's conflict of interest policy] The professors who were blocked by the University of Florida from offering expert testimony in a voting rights lawsuit against the state have won a significant legal victory for their academic freedom claims. [read post]
6 Jul 2022, 9:01 am
[A conversation with Eugene Volokh about the Shapiro controversy and political statements by university leaders] A new episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast from the Academic Freedom Alliance is now available. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 1:47 pm
[Guidance given to faculty about effects of state abortion law raise troubling academic freedom questions] According to various reports, the general counsel at the University of Idaho has issued guidance to university employees regarding the state's new abortion law. [read post]
5 Dec 2019, 1:33 pm
Representative Matt Gaetz was widely mocked yesterday for suggesting during the impeachment hearing that "maybe it's a different president we should be impeaching," by which he meant the one who left office in January 2017. [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 10:33 am
[A conversation with a long-time leader of the American Association of University Professors about academic freedom] A new episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast from the Academic Freedom Alliance is now available. [read post]
21 Oct 2021, 5:00 am
[A conversation with the AAUP and FIRE about changes in the tenure system at state universities in Georgia] A new episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast from the Academic Freedom Alliance is now available. [read post]
16 Nov 2021, 7:01 am
[Some professors at UM think Bright Sheng got what he deserved and would like to do it to others as well] The University of Michigan opened this academic year with an academic freedom scandal. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 5:30 am
[The law school has initiated disciplinary hearings against Professor Amy Wax stemming from her appearance on Glenn Loury's podcast] In December 2021, University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Amy Wax appeared on Glenn Loury's podcast. [read post]
10 Feb 2021, 6:24 pm
[He gets to the right answer, but botched the execution.] [read post]
