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#11. Februar 2024
What Can Professors Say in Public?
Blog: Reason.com
My new article on the First Amendment and controversial faculty speech
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#225. Oktober 2023
Online Harassment Against Asian-American Professors
Blog: Reason.com
An allegedly deafening silence from law enforcement
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#320. Oktober 2023
Firing Professors Who Engage in Speech to Prevent Students from Being Offended—or from Fearing Discrimination by the Professors
Blog: Reason.com
A conversation with a colleague leads me to repost this item from 2016; I also made similar points in this 2017 post about a different controversy. It's of course far removed in some ways on the facts from the controversies we've been seeing recently. Some might argue, for instance, that outright support of murder (or…
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#415. August 2023
Three Georgia Law Professors Weigh In On Trump's Latest Indictment
Blog: Features – FiveThirtyEight
Former president Donald Trump has been indicted for a fourth time, now in Fulton County, Georgia for efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state. While the alleged crimes in this case are similar in some ways to his previous federal indictments in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation, there are […]
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#530. Juni 2022
Professors on the Frontline of the Academic Industrial Complex
Blog: Latest Blog Posts
Nature recently published a perspective "Has the 'great resignation' hit academia?" In discussing faculty discontent with academia and shifting to "non-academic" jobs, one factoid they cite is "Forty-one per cent of mid-career researchers — compared with 32% of early-career scientists — reported that organizational politics or bureaucracy frequently or always frustrated their efforts to do a good job". What is it about the corporate culture of aca
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#612. Oktober 2023
The Raouf Farrah Case: Why Canada Should Defend Academic Freedom
Blog: Centre for International Policy Studies
Never has our world been more in need of research. Whether dealing with the climate emergency or with organized crime, major global challenges are complex and divisive. The only way to break out of the echo chambers that polarize debates …
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#730. Oktober 2023
Jewish Professors Should Place A Mezuzah On Their Office Doors
Blog: Reason.com
These symbols will let Jewish students know they are not alone.
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#81. Februar 2024
Thoughts on the Declining Numbers of SCOTUS Clerks Becoming Law Professors
Blog: Reason.com
One track became two.
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#913. Juni 2023
"[It's] as if it didn't exist": Is cyberbullying of university professors taken seriously?
Blog: Impact of Social Sciences
As teaching and learning in higher education increasingly becomes an online activity opportunities for and instances of cyberbullying have become more common. Drawing on a recent study of Canadian academics in Quebec, Jérémie Bisaillon and Stéphane Villeneuve¸ find cyberbullying to be endemic to academic life and that those affected often lack knowledge or institutional structures … Continued
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#1021. Juli 2023
74 Percent of College Students Support Snitching on Professors Who Make 'Offensive' Statements
Blog: Reason.com
Blame university administrators.
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#113. November 2023
Idaho "No Public Funds for Abortion" Act Doesn't Preclude Pro-Abortion Speech by Professors
Blog: Reason.com
Idaho's Attorney General Raúl Labrador so opines, including a rousing defense of academic freedom, including in scholarship and teaching.
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#1217. Oktober 2023
Employers, Employees, Professors, Students: Remember—Some States Restrict Discrimination Based on Employees' Political Activity
Blog: Reason.com
Sunday, the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed by a law professor at UC Berkeley that argued: My students are largely engaged and well-prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers. But if you don't want to hire people who advocate hate and practice discrimination, don't hire some of my students. Anti-Semitic conduct is nothing…
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#1317. August 2023
FIRE Lawsuit Against California Community Colleges Over "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" Mandates
Blog: Reason.com
From today's press release, by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression:, about Palsgaard v. Christian (E.D. Cal.): Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed a lawsuit on behalf of six California community college professors to halt new, systemwide regulations forcing professors to espouse and teach politicized conceptions of "diversity, equity, and inclusion." … Under…
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#1417. März 2024
The Ethics of Law Professor Amicus Briefs Revisited
Blog: Reason.com
Are law professors too quick to sign their names on briefs submitted to courts? Is this a problem?
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#151. August 2023
Crisis Pregnancy Centers File Free Speech Suits Over Illinois and Vermont Laws
Blog: Reason.com
Plus: California tries to stop professors from testifying in suit over COVID education policies, state Republicans aren't all abandoning free market economics, and more...