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David French

David French, a native Kentuckian, graduated from David Lipscomb University and with honors from Harvard Law School. Prior to serving as FIRE's second president, he was a lecturer at Cornell Law School, a partner at the law firm of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, and religious freedom counsel for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. David was the lead attorney in FIRE’s first major public case, a successful defense of freedom of association at Tufts University, and he was the lead attorney in FIRE’s victory in federal court against the unconstitutional speech code at Shippensburg University. David is the author of FIRE’s Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus and, with Harvey A. Silverglate and Greg Lukianoff, co-author of FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus. He lives in Tennessee with his wife, Nancy, and their children, Camille and Austin, and remains a member of FIRE's Legal Network.

Contributions

Articles

• "Pennsylvania's Historic Academic Freedom Hearings,"
  by David French, Front Page Magazine, October 28, 2005
• "Testimony to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Select Committee on Student Academic Freedom,"
  by David French, September 19, 2005
• "The Academy's Glass Ceiling,"
  by David French, Front Page Magazine, July 12, 2005
• "Academic Freedom For Some,"
  by David French, Front Page Magazine, March 4, 2005
• "Administrators at Risk: A FIRE Seminar on Common Legal and Policy Misunderstandings,"
  by David French and Greg Lukianoff, February 10, 2005
• "FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus,"
  by David French, Greg Lukianoff and Harvey Silverglate, November 30, 2004
• "Michael Moore and the Scandal of Student Fees,"
  by David French, Front Page Magazine, November 11, 2004
• "UMass failing constitutional test,"
  by David French, Boston Herald, October 16, 2004
• "A fraternity struggles for freedom,"
  by David French, The News and Observer, August 27, 2004
• "FIRE’s Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus,"
  by David French, October 1, 2002

Torch Posts

• "UWEC Cannot Run from Its Record,"
  by David French, November 16, 2005
• "Indefensible Dispositions,"
  by David French, October 19, 2005
• "Friday in ’Bama,"
  by David French, October 11, 2005
• "‘National Review’ Highlights Klocek Case,"
  by David French, October 10, 2005
• "Not All Speech Codes Are About Ideology,"
  by David French, September 29, 2005
• "Testing Dartmouth,"
  by David French, September 27, 2005
• "The Trouble with ‘Dispositions’,"
  by David French, September 21, 2005
• "Criticism or Censorship?,"
  by David French, September 8, 2005
• "Another Absurd ‘McCarthyism’ Complaint,"
  by David French, September 6, 2005
• "Hurricane Relief,"
  by David French, September 1, 2005
• "Smoking Gun at Washington State,"
  by David French, September 1, 2005
• "K. C. Johnson Strikes Again,"
  by David French, August 26, 2005
• "Good News from the Seventh Circuit,"
  by David French, August 23, 2005
• "‘Torch’ Posting Slowdown,"
  by David French, August 18, 2005
• "Nontraditional Students,"
  by David French, August 18, 2005
• "Religious Discrimination at William Paterson?,"
  by David French, August 5, 2005
• "Washington State: The Story Gets Stranger and Stranger,"
  by David French, July 28, 2005
• "The Authoritarian Communitarian Impulse,"
  by David French, July 27, 2005
• "The Unbearable Absurdity of New Jersey Non-Discrimination Law,"
  by David French, July 21, 2005
• "A Competitive Market in Higher Education?,"
  by David French, July 12, 2005
• "Is Hamilton the Next Dartmouth?,"
  by David French, July 11, 2005
• "Klocek Files Suit,"
  by David French, June 17, 2005
• "Majority Love, Minority Rights,"
  by David French, June 15, 2005
• "Real World vs. Ideal World,"
  by David French, June 10, 2005
• "Who Are the Censors?,"
  by David French, June 10, 2005
• "Department Chairs and Free Speech,"
  by David French, June 7, 2005
• "The Churchill Files,"
  by David French, June 6, 2005
• "‘Moral Retards’ and Academic Freedom,"
  by David French, June 3, 2005
• "An Important New Book,"
  by David French, June 1, 2005
• "‘Training,’ Not Education,"
  by David French, May 31, 2005
• "‘Dispositions’ at Brooklyn College,"
  by David French, May 31, 2005
• "Censorship as an Act of Civil Disobedience?,"
  by David French, May 27, 2005
• "Institutional Academic Freedom,"
  by David French, May 17, 2005
• "Contributing to FIRE,"
  by David French, May 13, 2005
• "Victory for the Free Speech Trustee Candidates,"
  by David French, May 13, 2005
• "Princeton Does the Right Thing,"
  by David French, May 11, 2005
• "Is Dartmouth Really Free?,"
  by David French, May 10, 2005
• "A Huge Victory for Free Speech at Dartmouth,"
  by David French, May 9, 2005
• "The Unwritten Rules,"
  by David French, May 5, 2005
• "The Solomon Amendment and Free Association,"
  by David French, May 3, 2005
• "Dartmouth: The Spin Unravels,"
  by David French, April 22, 2005
• "Dartmouth: Still Mysterious,"
  by David French, April 21, 2005
• "Apples and Oranges?,"
  by David French, April 21, 2005
• "The Unreported Abuses,"
  by David French, April 20, 2005
• "Colgate Disinformation,"
  by David French, April 18, 2005
• "Still More on Viewpoint Discrimination,"
  by David French, April 15, 2005
• "Cowardly Attacks,"
  by David French, April 7, 2005
• "Dartmouth Mystery Deepens,"
  by David French, April 7, 2005
• "More on Hiring Bias,"
  by David French, April 7, 2005
• "Columbia Manipulates the Press,"
  by David French, April 6, 2005
• "More on Viewpoint Discrimination,"
  by David French, April 6, 2005
• "The Columbia Report: An Analysis,"
  by David French, April 1, 2005
• "Four ‘Mallard Fillmores’,"
  by David French, April 1, 2005
• "More ‘Mallard Fillmore’,"
  by David French, March 30, 2005
• "The AAUP’s Ringing Defense of Diversity,"
  by David French, March 29, 2005
• "‘Mallard Fillmore’ Quacks Again,"
  by David French, March 29, 2005
• "Shouting ‘F.I.R.E.’ in a Crowded University,"
  by David French, March 28, 2005
• "Free Speech and Harvard Law,"
  by David French, March 28, 2005
• "The Dartmouth Free Speech Mystery,"
  by David French, March 28, 2005
• "FIRE Issues Analysis of Churchill Report,"
  by David French, March 25, 2005
• "Defending Speech Codes?,"
  by David French, March 24, 2005
• "Sommers Speaks About Summers,"
  by David French, March 23, 2005
• "Le Moyne’s Follies,"
  by David French, March 22, 2005
• "Clearing the Air on Al-Qloushi,"
  by David French, March 14, 2005
• "Inside the Mind of the Censor,"
  by David French, March 11, 2005
• "Important Developments at Dartmouth,"
  by David French, March 7, 2005
• "Jada Pinkett Smith: In Her Own Words,"
  by David French, March 3, 2005
• "Harvard Loves Free Speech,"
  by David French, March 3, 2005
• "A Puzzling Critique,"
  by David French, March 2, 2005
• "A Few Good Interns,"
  by David French, March 1, 2005
• "Dershowitz on Summers,"
  by David French, March 1, 2005
• "Newt’s Follies,"
  by David French, February 28, 2005
• "‘The Economist’ on Summers,"
  by David French, February 28, 2005
• "A Rare Opportunity,"
  by David French, February 28, 2005
• "The ‘Charlotte Observer’ Gets It Right,"
  by David French, February 25, 2005
• "Are Things Getting Worse?,"
  by David French, February 25, 2005
• "Reveling in Bias,"
  by David French, February 24, 2005
• "Columbia and McCarthyism,"
  by David French, February 24, 2005
• "RIC Is Not the Only One,"
  by David French, February 24, 2005
• "Le Moyne Responds,"
  by David French, February 22, 2005
• "Taking Back Their School,"
  by David French, February 21, 2005
• "Marketplace of Fear,"
  by David French, February 21, 2005
• "Vive la difference!,"
  by David French, February 18, 2005
• "The Summers Transcript,"
  by David French, February 18, 2005
• "Redefining Disciplines,"
  by David French, February 17, 2005
• "Good News for Religious Liberty,"
  by David French, February 17, 2005
• "If You Want to See Me on Video...,"
  by David French, February 16, 2005
• "Is ‘Derecognize’ a Word?,"
  by David French, February 16, 2005
• "Freedom of Conscience and Faculty Bias,"
  by David French, February 16, 2005
• "Hamilton Builds a Fence,"
  by David French, February 14, 2005
• "A Big Week for Religious Liberty,"
  by David French, February 14, 2005
• "Churchill and AAUP Statements,"
  by David French, February 10, 2005
• "The Cure for Bad Speech,"
  by David French, February 10, 2005
• "FIRE Writes Letter to Colorado,"
  by David French, February 9, 2005
• "New Speech Code—Same as the Old,"
  by David French, February 9, 2005
• "More on Churchill,"
  by David French, February 8, 2005
• "Welcome to ‘The Torch’,"
  by David French, February 8, 2005
• "FAIR’s Unfair Critique,"
  by David French, February 4, 2005
• "More on Mob Rule,"
  by David French, February 3, 2005
• "The ‘Other’ Churchill,"
  by David French, February 2, 2005