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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Research
Institute Update
Call for Participation: Federal Funding and the First Amendment
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Research
Essays and Scholarship
Protecting Immigrant Activists From U.S. Government Retaliation: Lessons From First Amendment Litigation
Immigrant activists in the U.S. face legal and structural barriers when fighting First Amendment retaliation.
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Lawsuit
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York v. USDA
A case challenging USDA’s purge of climate-related webpages.
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Podcast
"Views on First: Speech & the Border"
At the frontiers of censorship and surveillance
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