Submit Your Articles to the Journal of Free Speech Law, Before You Circulate Them to the Law Reviews

Submit Your Articles to the Journal of Free Speech Law, Before You Circulate Them to the Law Reviews

Our peer-reviewed Journal of Free Speech Law, which is now four years old, has published over 100 articles, including by Jack Balkin (Yale), Mark Lemley (Stanford), Jane Ginsburg (Columbia), Philip Hamburger (Columbia), Christopher Yoo (Penn), and many others—both prominent figures in the field and emerging young scholars, including ones who didn't have a tenure-track academic appointment. (This list doesn't include our reprinting others' sympos…

Free Speech Expert Discusses Open Expression and Trump

Michelle Deutchman, who leads UC’s free expression center, says institutions are grappling with how to promote student expression amid the government’s crackdown on protesters. The University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement launched in 2017, at a time when students were shouting down conservative speakers on campus, raising questions about what role the First Amendment did—and should—play in higher education. J…

Trump’s War On Free Speech Gets The John Oliver Treatment

At a time when mainstream media continues to struggle with calling out Trump’s censorial power grabs for what they are, John Oliver just devoted an entire segment to exposing what Techdirt readers already know: Donald Trump’s administration has been waging a direct and sustained assault on free speech and the First Amendment, with FCC chairman Brendan Carr serving as his lead enforcer. His latest episode not only provides much-needed mainstream …

Over 550 community members sign petition in support of Beilock’s free speech initiatives and response to Trump administration

More than 550 Dartmouth community members are speaking out in support of College President Sian Leah Beilock's approach to free speech on campus and response to federal actions under the Trump administration. As of May 21, 557 individuals, including Dartmouth alumni, faculty, community members and students, have signed the Change.org petition.The petition comes after Beilock declined to sign an American Association of Colleges and Universities l…

Are Colleges Rebounding on Speech? — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

Free speech is a foundational value of American life, yet our college campuses are justly accused of not adequately fostering a free-speech environment. Few will have forgotten the tensions of Covid, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other recent political topics on which students did not feel free to speak their minds in many cases. Groupthink ruled the day. However, according to a recent survey, colleges and universities seem to have turned…