by | Nov 18, 2021 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Education & Youth, Establishment Clause, Free Exercise, Freedom of Expression, Legal History, Voting and Elections Rights
Photo Credit: Zimmytws/iStock, via Getty Images Plus Respect for the Constitution used to be a basic qualification for elected officials. These days, some voters are giddy about campaign promises that would blatantly defy it. More troublingly, some politicians and...
by | Mar 10, 2021 | Ames Live Blog, Amicus, Freedom of Expression
Welcome to the 2021 Ames Final – the first Ames Final to be conducted in a virtual setting. Live coverage begins at 5:00pm EST The following information is courtesy of the HLS BSAs. You can see all of tonight’s information, including copies of the briefs, here. The...
by | Mar 8, 2021 | Freedom of Expression, Podcast, Privacy and Technology
On this episode, Executive Editor Samantha Neal speaks with Evelyn Douek, a lecturer on law and SJD candidate at Harvard Law School, about digital free speech: to what extent it should be regulated online, who the “arbiters of truth” are and why it matters, the threat...
by | Apr 17, 2020 | Amicus, Freedom of Expression
Photo Credit: Bank Phrom/Unsplash Last week, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. announced that arrest warrants had been issued for two journalists for allegedly trespassing on the university’s campus in the course of their reporting on the university’s...
by | Nov 5, 2019 | Amicus, Environmental Justice, Freedom of Expression, Legislation
The First Amendment provides some protection for commercial speech, or speech on behalf of a corporation with the intent to produce profit. Despite this, many state governments are entertaining and passing legislation that would prevent plant-based meat and milk...
by | Oct 23, 2019 | Amicus, Freedom of Expression, Reproductive Rights, Uncategorized
Our shared Constitution ensures that we need not share a religion. However, in the name of religious liberty for health care providers, recent legal developments are chipping away at the rights of patients to seek medical procedures. Conscience-based objectors have...
