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Yale Law dean’s message to alumni promises free speech changes. We’re (very) cautiously optimistic.

FIRE

These transgressions, and more, earned Yale FIRE’s 2022 Lifetime Censorship Award and surely contributed to its almost-dead-last showing in our College Free Speech Rankings. FIRE remains hopeful the broader university’s dark, censorious days may soon be history.

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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. ” An official of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote a letter to university president Sylvia M.

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Free speech concerns prompt calls to shun Yale Law grads

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Recent issues at Yale Law School are back in the spotlight after a conservative judge called on his peers to abstain from hiring Yale Law graduates as clerks because of free speech concerns. “Across the country, there are thousands of young people who are about to apply to law school.

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AAUP on Florida: authoritarian control wilting higher education

University Business

“Bottom line: Big Brother is watching,” wrote one University of Florida professor in an email to his colleagues and collected by the special committee. I’m the faculty advisor for the Federalist Society, for the Law School Republicans, and for the Christian Legal Society. “He is taking names.

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On the offense: A new Trump defamation suit, yet another one threatened, and more! — FAN 352

FIRE

Timothy Zick, “ The First Amendment in the Trump Era ” (Oxford University Press, 2019). Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Marymount University, who reviewed the latest suit, said she sees “no legal path forward” for Trump. “I Yale dean on free speech at Yale Law School. “ No legal path forward’.