Towson University students and campus groups were among the most punished or investigated for free speech in the U.S. from 2020 through 2024, according to a report by the nonprofit Foundation for ...

One week before the 2024 election, a small group of students at James Madison University acted as agents of good. They stood on the heavily trafficked campus Quad wearing sandwich board posters that ...

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 ...

A Texas district court judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Texas system to hold off on enforcing new, sweeping limits on student expression that would prohibit any “expressive activity” ...

The authors write "In Leroy v. Livingston Manor Central School District, No. 24-1241, 2025 WL 3029421 (2d Cir. Oct. 30, 2025), the Second Circuit for the first time applied the First Amendment ...

Indiana University’s new expressive activity policy is being enforced already — during the first week of the fall semester. On Tuesday, IUPD reported at least two people to the vice provost for ...

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. ...

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 ...