The Latest Breaking News from the University of Texas at Austin

Texas, one of the most conservative US states, has implemented laws limiting the ability to protest against Israel.

An American Civil Liberties Union of Texas attorney and a UT-Austin professor discussed how free speech has been protected and challenged in campus protests, and what we should all learn from the last few weeks.

As I've noted before, public universities have considerable authority to impose content-neutral rules on demonstrations, for instance prohibiting overnight campouts, restricting sound amplification, and so on. But of course the First Amendment requires such rules to be content-neutral (or, in "limited public forums" on campuses, at least viewpoint-neutral). And even…

University officials banned all students arrested from campus, except for “academic reasons.”