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17 Oct 2022, 5:30 am by Keith E. Whittington
[Organic chemistry professor fired because students at NYU thought the grades were too harsh] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a statement regarding the decision of New York University not to renew the contract of organic chemistry professor Maitland Jones. [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 1:52 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[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. [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 11:51 am by Eugene Volokh
(see also Keith Whittington's post on the underlying controversy, and my post from when the lawsuit was filed): This case arises from a series of statements—a newspaper publication, an interview, class discussions, and social media posts—made by Phillips during the time he was a professor at Collin College. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 1:47 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[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]
26 Sep 2022, 9:14 am by Keith E. Whittington
[To defend the Stop WOKE Act, Florida asks court to eliminate any academic freedom exception to government employee speech doctrine] This past summer Florida adopted House Bill 7, better known as the Stop WOKE Act. [read post]
22 Sep 2022, 3:00 am by jonathanturley
Mellon Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Emory University Bonnie Snyder, Former Director of K-12 Programs at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Mark Bauerlein, Senior Editor at First Things, Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University Keith Whittington, William E. [read post]
15 Sep 2022, 12:13 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[A conversation with the outgoing president of Purdue University and former Republican governor of Indiana.] [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 1:36 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[The first government official has been removed by judicial order for participating in the January 6th "insurrection"] One of the lingering issues arising from the events of January 6, 2021 has been whether it would resuscitate the little used Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 7:35 am by Keith E. Whittington
[Diversity statements have become common in university admissions and hiring, and that's a problem] Earlier this week, the Academic Freedom Alliance released a new public statement. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 2:23 pm by Keith E. Whittington
I have already edited the case for the companion site to the Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington American Constitutionalism casebook. [read post]
18 Aug 2022, 8:00 am by Keith E. Whittington
[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. [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 5:30 am by Keith E. Whittington
[A comprehensive catalog of every case in which the Court considered a constitutional challenge to an act of Congress] I have now posted to my personal website an updated and expanded version of the Judicial Review of Congress Database. [read post]
6 Jul 2022, 9:01 am by Keith E. Whittington
[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]
14 Jun 2022, 2:29 pm by Randy E. Barnett
Fritz, American Sovereigns (Cambridge, 2007) Timothy Sandefur, The Right to Earn a Living (Cato Institute, 2010) Sonu Bedi, Rejecting Rights (Cambridge, 2009) Alison LaCroix, The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (Harvard, 2010) 2010: David Bernstein, Rehabilitating Lochner (Chicago 2011) (assigned ms) Brian Tamanaha, The Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging (Princeton, 2009) Earl Maltz, Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 (Kansas, 2009) Michael Vorenberg, Final… [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
While this Protestant message helped Roosevelt prevail over the Supreme Court’s resistance, his failed attempt to pack the Court had dramatic repercussions for constitutional Catholicism: it cemented judicial supremacy into the American political order (Whittington 2008). [read post]