Adam Goldstein
Vice President of Research
Research Team
For 13 years, Adam was an attorney with the Student Press Law Center, giving legal assistance to over 15,000 students, parents, and others. While at the Center, he co-authored their legal textbook, Law of the Student Press. In the past, he taught student media law for Michigan State University’s graduate school of education and advocated for domain name owners in arbitration. He blogs on First Amendment and civil rights issues on the Huffington Post. Adam is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and is licensed to practice in New York. In his free time, he researches the history of classic American recipes.
Recent Writings
- A tale of two pretexts: Sham investigations silence professors at Central Florida and Princeton ,
- By delaying free speech survey in response to criticism, University of Wisconsin System errs,
- Yale’s treatment of psych lecturer another step in continuing retreat from academic freedom ,
- University of South Carolina indefinitely postpones speech on Ethiopian civil war after regime's defenders complain,
- New Republic, old data: Article on UATX wrongly dismisses campus illiberalism problem,
- Who’s protected by a free student press? Part II: Viewpoint diversity and neutrality in the newsroom,
- ‘The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder’ introduces a new generation to the infamous (and often absurd) Anthony Comstock,
- Who’s protected by a free student press? Part I: The right to editorial independence.,
- 13 important points in the campus & K-12 ‘critical race theory’ debate,
- John McWhorter’s ‘Nine Nasty Words’ is my May book of the month — with a serious digression into academic freedom & teaching about epithets,
- Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part fifteen: Ideological conformity and censorship in education schools,
- Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part fourteen: ‘Social justice’ requirements in ed schools & how the NY Times made me a HuffPost writer,
- Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part thirteen: The misuse of Title IX still threatens free speech on campus,
- Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part eleven: The special problem of ‘bias response teams’,
- Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part nine: campuses continue to hire administrators, act like corporations,
- FIRE to New York’s highest court: Hold Fordham to its promises in Students for Justice in Palestine case,
- Professor removed by St. John's for asking history question files lawsuit,
- UCF is killing academic freedom to punish tweets it didn’t like,
- Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part seven: The #MustListen Kate Julian interview, 'Runaway Homophily,' and the second 'Coddling' Caveat,
- Appeals court reverses Fordham SJP decision, finding school ‘followed its approval procedure’,
- FIRE objects after Ole Miss dismisses professor who complained about department chair,
- Dear University of North Texas: The ‘Heckler’s veto’ is not a good thing,
- At Loyola Marymount, another student government plays censor after student senator is impeached for supporting Trump,
- Update: St. John’s limits academic freedom of history department in ongoing effort to punish professor for asking question,
- John McWhorter is right about the chilling effect of Title IX campus safetyism,
- Analysis: Department of Education investigates Fordham over broken speech promises in Austin Tong case,
- The case of Carlin Romano gets a perfect score on the cancel culture checklist (and that’s not a good thing),
- Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part four: To the surprise of no one, polarization has only gotten worse,
- Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part three: ‘Right-on-Left’ censorship is still a thing on campus,
- (Gasp) Conservatives on Campus Problems & Cancel Culture,
- Greg’s Nowhere Near Definitive Outrage/Call-Out/Cancel Culture Study List,
- Greg’s Recommended Free Speech Culture Study List,
- Supreme Court grants cert in speech code case, Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski,
- Students in sports keep off-campus speech rights, Third Circuit rules,
- Bennet’s resignation portends a more conformist and polarized future,
- Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part two: Trigger warnings, screen time v. social media, COVID-19 and the continuing decline of Gen Z's mental health,
- State universities may be immune to copyright claims after Supreme Court opinion,
- FIRE tells Rocky Mountain College to rescind ban on ‘divisive’ displays, including crosses,
- Appeals court requires U. of Kentucky to submit redacted records,
- Wake Forest: Investigating speech ‘not in conflict’ with promising freedom,
- Wake Forest’s investigation of ‘build a wall’ Instagram post chills free speech,
- Baylor’s head-scratching explanation for throwing out student newspapers that reported campus rapes,
- Thieves steal 500 copies of U. of South Carolina student newspaper,
- Department of Education releases FAQ on student privacy law and school safety,
- FIRE renews call to reinstate adviser position at U. of N. Alabama,
- Volokh: “Hate speech” prosecution of SUNY student is unconstitutional,
- FIRE calls for reinstatement of U. North Alabama newspaper adviser position,
- Oklahoma State coach threatens to pull media access if reporters ask a question,
- Wiser Kids, Wiser Universities,
- Speech Codes and "Twisting Title IX",
- Speech Code Hokey Pokey: How Campus Speech Codes Could Rebound,
- Good News and Bad News About Campus Speech Codes,
- Best of Newsdesk: Happy 150th Anniversary, 14th Amendment,
- Happy 150th Anniversary, 14th Amendment,
- Removal of journalists from CUNY campuses shows evolving anti-media bias,
- Undercover cop joined protests of Confederate statue on UNC campus,
- American Bar Association calls for protections for student media,
- Best of Newsdesk: More Than One Year Later, No Funding Cuts So Far for Wesleyan Student Paper,
- FIRE files amici brief in Koala’s appeal of UCSD funding cut,
- DePaul rescinds McInnes invitation, extends speaker review policy,
- New Voices bill reaches governor’s desk in Arizona,
- Newspaper confiscated, adviser suspended at Hutchinson Community College,
- New Voices bill advances in Vermont, but Indiana effort faces new opposition,
- Law review article on bullying preaches free speech but proposes limiting it,
- Kentucky’s controversial ‘Charlie Brown’ bill has two provisions worth celebrating,
- West, George call for public to sign statement supporting marketplace of ideas,
- In flawed opinion, district court dismisses The Koala’s lawsuit,
- Iowa bill seeking partisan balance in higher ed faculty likely unconstitutional,
- Judge Gets It Wrong in Kentucky Records Ruling,
- More Than One Year Later, No Funding Cuts So Far for Wesleyan Student Paper,
- UC Davis, College Republicans Disagree on Why Milo Yiannopoulos Event Was Cancelled,
- College Newspaper Endorsements Likely Okay Under IRS Rules,
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