Some of the hardest free speech issues arise when a university argues that restrictions are justified by its "educational mission." Public colleges and universities are bound by the First Amendment. Their private counterparts are not (though a state might ...

In a very interesting new paper titled “Education Is Speech: Parental Free Speech in Education,” law professor Philip Hamburger argues that recognition of education as speech has significant consequences for the speech rights of parents in the ...

Many universities are struggling to reconcile the principles of free expression and campus safety. This is not a new issue, but it has taken on greater salience in the midst of protests over the Middle East. As with every case of conflicting principles ...