Student Protests, Title VI, and the First Amendment
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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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