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.
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Deep Dive: Student Protests, Title VI, and the First Amendment
Title VI as a Jawbone
The fact that Title VI has come to possess such importance when it comes to regulating protest and political expression on campus raises significant First Amendment questions
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Essays and Scholarship
Participatory Journalism and Its Potential in AI-Assisted Local News
The adoption of AI in local journalism should go hand in hand with implementing more equitable, civically focused, participatory forms of journalism
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Essay Series
Lawyering Without Law: The Legal Profession in an Age of Authoritarianism
A project studying the crucial role that lawyers can play in preserving democratic freedoms and institutions
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Essays and Scholarship
Surveilling Border Lawyering
Lawyers who serve migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border face surveillance and attempts to suppress their work by U.S. and Mexican government officials
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"The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment"
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