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Fourth Circuit Rules Against North Carolina State Professor Who Spoke Out Against Diversity Policies

JonathanTurley

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at North Carolina State University. Professor Stephen Porter objected to what he considered the lower standards used by his school to hire minority faculty.

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Do or DEI? Federal Judge Finds DEI Policies are Mandatory and Unconstitutional in California Case

JonathanTurley

Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” and Maurice C.

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Turley Publication on the Compulsion of Free Speech is Now Available

JonathanTurley

Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University. The article is the outgrowth of remarks that I gave a Maryland Law School at a Supreme Court symposium. The Law review asked me if I would be willing to convert my remarks into a law review article.

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UNC Law Student Who Questioned Racial Incident Is Disqualified From Running For New Office

JonathanTurley

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. .

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Minnesota Law School Drops Exclusion of Whites and Males from Diversity Scholarship

JonathanTurley

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.

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“The First Amendment is Out of Control”: Academic and Media Figures Rally Against Free Speech

JonathanTurley

George Washington University Law School Professor Mary Anne Franks believes that the First Amendment is “aggressively individualistic” and needs to be rewritten to “redo” the work of the Framers. .” So free speech not only threatens your life, your job, and your privacy, but serves corporate masters.

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Doubting Thomas: Why The Failure to Cancel a Supreme Court Justice May Not Mean Much for Other “Contingent” Faculty

JonathanTurley

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. It’s not an unfamiliar position for the Supreme Court justice, but it generated surprising support at a leading law school. The reason? His vote to overturn Roe v.

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