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FREE SPEECH ZONES
- SPLC Guide to Free Speech Zones
- Wikipedia: Free speech zones
- Free speech zone lawsuit at University of Cincinnati — FIRE article.
- Free speech at UC Davis under fire because of protests during a speech by the Israeli ambassador.
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Dozens of recent references to cases where courts struck down speech “zones,” or where universities were forced to change their speech zone policies, including University of Cincinnati, Clemson, Dartmouth, Valdosta State, West Florida, Nassau Community College, Texas Tech, Oregon community college, Emory, Indiana University, Emory, Vanderbilt, UNC Greensboro, University of Central Florida, West Virginia University, Appalachian State University… and many, many more).
- Zoned Out: Louisiana Law Review (2005) pdf
SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP
STUDENT MEDIA AND ADVERTISING RESTRICTIONS
STUDENT MEDIA AND PRIOR RESTRAINT OF EDITORIAL CONTENT
LIBEL, INVASION OF PRIVACY AND OTHER TORTS
- Rose v. Koch, 1966, was a Minnesota state libel case described in Arnold M. Rose, Libel and Academic Freedom, University of Minnesota Press, 1968. The case was brought, unsuccessfully, by the author who was then a professor at the University of Minnesota and who was falsely labelled a communist by right-wing extremists.
- A new North Carolina law prohibits the creation of false Facebook pages. Texas also has an “online impersonation” law.
Academic freedom and faculty
FREE SPEECH
AAUP POLICIES
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY / COPYRIGHT ISSUES
University critics
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) LAWSUITS
IDEOLOGICAL BALANCING AS ACADEMIC “FREEDOM”
- A series of so-called ‘Academic freedom’ bills introduced between 2004 – 2008 to require ideological balancing in universities was not, in effect, a movement to enhance academic freedom. Instead, the idea was to apply a litmus test of ideology to faculty and then determine the appropriate balance of the numbers of faculty within a university, with the apparent intent of dismissing those who did not meet certain ideological criteria. The bills were unworkable in practice and Constitutionally unprincipled.
- Trustees should push universities to the right According to Bruce Chapman writing for the Discovery Institute, American universities are dominated by left-wing academics who don’t teach the arguments against global warming or in favor of creationism and neo-Darwinism. Chapman says: “Since the Left now dominates the faculties of almost all universities and the faculties have a domineering attitude towards the Administrations of those schools, outsiders like the American Council of Trustees and Alumni that want to see trustees take up the responsibilities that are legally entrusted to them (that is why they are called “trustees,” right?), must be stonewalled, and then anathematized.”
Organizations engaged in First Amendment and Higher Education issues
Books and law reviews
- Paul Horwitz, “Universities as First Amendment Institutions: Some Easy Answers and Hard Questions, 54 UCLA Law Review 1497 (2007)
- The Contradictory Messages of Rehnquist-Roberts Era Speech Law: Liberty and Justice for Some By David Kairys, Temple University – Beasley School of Law, 2010 / 2012.
- FIRE guide to free speech on campus (PDF / online publication)
- Arnold M. Rose, Libel and Academic Freedom, University of Minnesota Press, 1968. Argues that private individuals should not be subject to extremist political harassment. This argument is recognized in the 1973 Gertz v. Welsh case which separates public and private figures and makes libel suits much more difficult to defend when private people (such as lawyers or others) who have avoided the public arena are attacked as public figures.