A federal appeals court in New York today upheld the decision of a lower court that Lewis B. Mills high school, in Burlington, Connecticut, was within its rights to discipline a senior student for ...

If you’re a public school student, you don’t check your constitutional rights at the schoolhouse doors. But whether schools can punish you for speaking out depends on when, where, and how you decide ...

Free speech on university campuses is a perennially hot topic, perhaps most recently reflected in protests about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at places like Ball State University, Harvard, and ...

Following disruptive pro-Palestinian protests in spring 2024, the federal government, state lawmakers and college officials have imposed sweeping restrictions on student speech, resulting in a wave of ...

A silent protest led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that defined students’ free speech rights. The court’s 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that “students do not leave their ...

Participants reflected on how free speech and hate speech are defined, noting how these boundaries can blur. Some voiced concerns about self-censorship in response to what could be perceived as hate. ...

Strossen is a past national president of the American Civil Liberties Union She also is a retired "John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School Strossen praises MLK for ...

Mr. Sunstein is a law professor at Harvard and the author of “Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide.” Last spring, protests at numerous American universities, prompted by the ongoing conflict in the ...

The Kansas Legislature has decided that some speech deserves government protection. Other speech deserves government persecution. The votes have come throughout the session, each one worse than the ...