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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us9WM72Fh6c Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky—who is also a noted scholar of constitutional law and academic freedom—joins Jane Bambauer and me to discuss student speech controversies (including the one that was literally in Erwin's back yard), as well as faculty academic freedom in scholarship, public commentary, and teaching.

whether at administrators' homes or in law school classrooms.

"I never thought I would see such blatant antisemitism."

Public calls continue for Justice Sotomayor to step down so that President Biden can name her replacement before the election.

Restricting speech about the world's most pressing problems does not make them go away, nor does it settle any disputes.

Chemerinsky and Gillman are the co-authors of Free Speech on Campus, and have long defended free speech and academic freedom. (For another recent item from the two of them, see here ["Free speech doesn't mean hecklers get to shut down campus debate"].) I don't always agree with them on such…

A bit lost in the controversy over antisemitic speech on campus is the failure of university administrators to enforce existing rules that are content-neutral. I have already written about my own university's failure to enforce Virginia's law banning masked demonstrations. That failure continues, despite a letter from the state attorney…

Two dozen law firms sent an open letter to top law schools over concerns about rising anti-Semitism on college campuses.