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17 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
University officials sent out mass emails calling her Islamophobic.What about a lawsuit claiming Hamline violated Lopez Prater’s academic freedom? [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 5:44 pm by Eugene Volokh
The Pioneer Press (Josh Verges) reports [UPDATE: see also the Complaint]: The adjunct professor accused of Islamophobia for showing artwork in class that depicted the Prophet Muhammad filed a lawsuit against Hamline University on Tuesday as Hamline's president conceded the school mishandled the controversy. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 8:23 am by Michael C. Dorf
In it, I discuss the saga of Erika Lopez Prater--the art history adjunct professor who lost her position at Hamline University as a result of the administration's craven capitulation to a Muslim student's complaint that Professor Lopez Prater's respectful display of a historically significant painting of the prophet Muhammad was Islamophobic. [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 8:10 am by Brian Leiter
A lot of sensible remarks in this CHE essay about the Hamline fiasco: The DEI profession began as workplace diversity trainings aimed at protecting corporations from costly discrimination lawsuits, and it plays a similar role today. [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 4:47 am
"Writes Christiane Gruber, a professor of Islamic art in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan, in "An Academic Is Fired Over a Medieval Painting of the Prophet Muhammad/The dismissal of an instructor at Hamline University on baseless charges of 'Islamophobia' raises concerns about freedom on campus" (New Lines Magazine)(via Arts & Letters Daily).Professor Gruber doesn't seem to notice the problem of viewpoint… [read post]
11 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
It seems an adjunct professor at Hamline University was teaching a class in art history. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 10:24 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  (In this way, there is a similarity to Damar Hamlin's injury last week, which followed a hit that did not in the moment seem remarkable.) [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 10:05 am by Tom Smith
Hamline University could lose its accreditation after a formal complaint was filed against it for firing a professor who showed a painting of Prophet Muhammed.An attorney sent the complaint to the Higher Learning Commission saying the liberal college was 'failing to protect the academic freedom' of Professor Erika López Prater.Meanwhile the ACLU also slammed the university for 'punishing educators for presenting controversial material'.The… [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 5:15 am by Brian Leiter
Apt remarks by The Guardian's Kenan Malik regarding the academic freedom fiasco at Hamline University: Perhaps the most damaging aspect of Hamline’s action is the use of the language of diversity to eviscerate the very meaning of diversity. [read post]
9 Jan 2023, 4:25 pm by Eugene Volokh
From the statement: It is with great concern that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) views the firing of an art professor, Erika López Prater, from Hamline University on the grounds of showing a fourteenth-century painting depicting the Prophet Muḥammad. [read post]
9 Jan 2023, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
"] The New York Times (Vimal Patel) wrote yesterday about the Hamline University lecturer who was fired for displaying a painting of Muhammed in class. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 10:00 am by Keith E. Whittington
Over at The Dispatch, I have a new piece on Hamline University and its academic freedom struggles. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 7:00 am by Keith E. Whittington
[In email to campus Hamline University president reemphasizes that academic freedom does not exist there] Hamline University is going through some things. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
" Hamline University's statement of civility, Office of Inclusive Excellence, Hamline Univ. [read post]
4 Jan 2023, 1:00 pm by Mike LaChance
“one of the most egregious violations of academic freedom in recent memory” The post Hamline University Under Fire for Not Renewing Art Prof’s Contract for Showing Images of Muhammad first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]