Articles tagged: "FIRE"

Move aside, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), there is a new free speech and First Amendment defender in town: the…

After a 122-day investigation into his tweets, Ilya Shapiro resigned as senior lecturer and executive director of Georgetown University Law…

Georgetown University placed a newly-hired law professor on leave after one of his social media posts led to an outcry…

A group of students at the University of Notre Dame are pushing for the university to block pornography on its internet wireless network.

Apparently, some university administrators are not content with just making their campus a gun-free zone.

James Livingston, the white Rutgers historian who obscenely tweeted about how much he hates white people, has been found in violation of school policy by the university.

But don’t expect other universities to follow suit.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided against Marquette University in its ongoing legal battle with John McAdams, the professor it fired for publicly rebuking a graduate assistant for forcing her opinions on her class.

The good news is that students are not quite as ignorant of their constitutional rights as we’ve thought. The bad news is that most universities don’t want them to have any.

Actually, it was the rent-a-cops at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute who tried practicing law without a license. The ABA should be up in arms.

Our friends at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) have compiled a list of the ten campuses with the worst free speech policies.

You would have thought they were handing out Confederate flags.