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Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin "Gus" Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.

Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin "Gus" Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.

Our new Journal of Free Speech Law is faculty-edited, but we'd love to have help from students with cite-checking. Our American law professor authors generally have their own research assistants do that, but some of our authors are from outside the U.S., and some are practitioners or professors in other…

Just published in volume 2, issue 2 of the Journal of Free Speech Law, and available here; here's the Introduction: The academy is rife with contention over the conditioning of faculty ap­pointments on an attestation to or a record of support for a secular trinity: "Di­ver­si­ty, Equity, Inclusion." These DEI…

One goal of our peer-reviewed Journal of Free Speech Law is to be able to publish quickly, when the author so prefers. We haven't always been as quick as we'd have liked, but it seems like we now have the proper staffing and procedures to be quite good about it.…

Just published as the first article in volume 2, issue 2 of the Journal of Free Speech Law, and available here; here's the Introduction: What harms are caused by hate speech? How can we assess those harms? Does hate speech lead to violence? Do racial, ethnic, and religious groups have…

and Educational Diversity Among Private Colleges and Universities," by Prof. James Weinstein (Arizona State).

Just published as part of the "Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech" symposium; here's the Introduction (the article is here): To what extent are free speech and open discussion being stifled on college campuses? This question inspires sharp disagreement. Where some see a serious problem, others deny that there is any…

Just published as part of the "Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech" symposium; here's the start of the Introduction and the Conclusion (the article is here): A lot of people praise free speech, but no one really wants it. We don't want people to be able to follow us down the…

From the Abstract; read the whole article here: In this paper, I undertake a qualitative exploration of how social regulation of speech works in practice on university campuses, and of the extent to which social regulation in practice affirms or undermines the stereotypes and caricatures that characterize the cancel-culture wars.…