FIRE is pleased to post a law review article by Kelly Sarabyn, FIRE’s Robert H. Jackson Legal Fellow, entitled The Twenty-Sixth Amendment: Resolving the Federal Circuit Split Over College Students’ First Amendment Rights. The article, previously published by The Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, offers a refutation to colleges who justify the censorship of student speech by claiming they possess the in loco parentis powers of grade schools. Given the current encroachments on university students’ free speech rights, remembering the historical understanding of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment provides a timely reminder that university students are overwhelmingly adults and should be treated as such.
Brandeis: Still Abusing A Professor
Minding the Campus posted this incisive examination of recent events at Brandeis University authored by FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate and Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Will Creeley. Silverglate’s and Creeley’s article takes Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz to task for his handling of both the Rose Art Museum fiasco and the case of Professor Donald Hindley.