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Content-neutral to content-discriminatory and the changing nature of campus protests
Main Friday, May 10, 2024Content-neutral to content-discriminatory and the changing nature of campus protestsGreat conversation among Jane Bambauer, Eugene Volokh, and Erwin Chemerinksy on the Free Speech Unmuted podcast.I will…
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“Peaceful Protest” and “Non-Violent Protest”
Main Friday, May 03, 2024"Peaceful Protest" and "Non-Violent Protest"Campus protest season is winding down, unevenly, unprettily, and sometimes unlawfully, and for a variety of reasons, not least the academic calendar,…
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Recruiting activists
Main Friday, May 03, 2024Recruiting activistsTyler Austin Harper, a professor of environmental studies at Bates College, argues that colleges promoted themselves to activist students as places that encouraged and celebrated…
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Post on Managing Student Expression: A Constitutional Theory of Student Free Speech Rights @YaleLawSch
Robert Post, Yale Law School, has published Managing Student Expression: A Constitutional Theory of Student Free Speech Rights. Here is the abstract.Courts and commentators write as if the speech of…
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National Lawyers’ Guild (Updated)
Main Thursday, April 11, 2024National Lawyers' Guild (Updated)I am curious how the National Lawyers' Guild feels about being dragged into the Erwin Chemerinsky mess, cited as legal authority and counsel…
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The kids are (kind of) alright
Main Thursday, April 11, 2024The kids are (kind of) alrightMy Temple does a program for final-semester HS seniors, a capstone to their Jewish educations designed to explore Jewish values and…
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Berkeley Law students flunk First Amendment 101
But the First Amendment doesn t protect disrupting events at people s homes and a UC Berkeley law student should know that.Disrupting someone else's event is antithetical to free speech,…
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Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Responds to Antisemitism
April 10, 2024 I write this with profound sadness. Since I became a dean, my wife and I have invited the first-year students to our home for dinner. We were…
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Specific Performance and the First Amendment
Main Wednesday, April 10, 2024Specific Performance and the First AmendmentThe Bryn Mawr Film Institute canceled a screening of The Child Within Me, a documentary about Israeli musician Yehuda Poliker, citing…
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Don’t Bogart That Joint, My Friend
Main Tuesday, April 02, 2024Don't Bogart That Joint, My FriendThese are the opening paragraphs of the Sixth Circuit opinion in White v. Wilkey. The facts, as the court noted, are…