Student Protests, Title VI, and the First Amendment
Jamiel Law

Blog

Student Protests, Title VI, and the First Amendment

This blog channel features short posts by a group of legal scholars who participated in a Knight Institute convening focused on the relevance of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in federally funded programs—to universities’ responses to recent campus protests.  In particular, they consider the relationship of Title VI to the First Amendment, and what lessons might be drawn from our collective experience with other civil rights laws.  Our hope is that the collection will inform public debate about past student protests and provide some guideposts to university administrators as they consider how to respond to future ones.

Read more about this series here.

Research

Essay Series

Permission to Speak Freely? Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy

A project exploring the law and politics of public employee speech

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Video

Documentary

Flashpoint: Protests, Policing, and the Press

A Knight Institute production

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Litigation

Lawsuit

The Foundation for Global Political Exchange v. Department of the Treasury

A case challenging OFAC’s suppression of the exchange of political ideas

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Event

Event

Regardless of Frontiers: The First Amendment and the Exchange of Ideas Across Borders

A symposium and exhibition exploring the international border as a venue, justification, or pretext for censorship or surveillance

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