Campus Free Speech
Claim Over Penn’s Alleged Knowing Toleration of Anti-Semitic Behavior Dismissed,
From today's decision by Judge Mitchell Goldberg (E.D. Pa.) in Yakoby v. Trustees of Univ. of Pa.: Plaintiffs, Jewish students attending the University of Pennsylvania ("Penn"), allege it engaged in antisemitic…
“Trump Remedies to Harvard’s Ills Should Respect Free Speech,” by My Hoover Institution Colleague Peter Berkowitz
This excerpt from his piece today in Real Clear Politics should give you a flavor for the argument; the entire piece is worth reading: In its multi-pronged efforts to pressure Harvard to live up to its self-proclaimed mission…
Marco Rubio is a hypocrite on free speech
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that foreign citizens who engage in online censorship of Americans' speech will be barred from obtaining visas to travel to the U.S. The announcement is the latest…
Judge Temporarily Blocks DHS’s Revocation of Harvard’s Ability to Allow Foreign Students and Exchange Visitors to Get Visas
This is the matter I wrote about yesterday; the judge issued a temporary restraining order "to preserve the status quo pending a hearing" on Harvard's preliminary injunction motion. The hearing is set for next…
Statement on Academic Freedom and Harvard by Right-of-Center Scholars, Lawyers, and Former Government Officials
Published in today's Chronicle of Higher Education (registration required there, reprinted here with permission): We write as generally right-of-center lawyers, scholars, and former government officials to affirm the…
Harvard University Loses Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certification for Pro-Terrorist Conduct
So the Department of Homeland Security announced today. A few tentative thoughts; if it turns out that I have erred in my understanding of the facts or of the program, I'll update them as necessary: Unsurprisingly,…
Court Dismisses Palestinian Muslim Student Activist’s Harassment Complaint Against Northwestern Law School, But Discrimination Claim Can Go Forward
From Elagha v. Northwestern Univ., decided Tuesday by Judge Charles Kocoras (N.D. Ill.): The following facts come from the amended complaint and are presumed true for purposes of this motion. All reasonable inferences are…
“Alleged Discrimination at the University of Oregon School of Law,” by Prof. Ofer Raban
Ofer Raban, who is a professor at the University of Oregon School of Law (but who, even more clearly than usual for a law professor, is speaking on behalf of himself and not the law school), passed along this item. I have no…
Judge orders Tufts grad student Rumeysa Ozturk’s release on bail
On Friday, a judge ordered the government to immediately release Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on bail from a federal immigration detention center. The judge said Ozturk's challenge of her arrest…
Can Harvard University be saved?
Today's guest is Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Pinker and Reason's Nick Gillespie discuss recent shifts at Harvard toward greater institutional neutrality and free speech, while warning that threats to…
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