Robert Shibley
Robert Shibley, an attorney at the law firm of Allen Harris PLLC, spent 19 years of his career at FIRE—the last half-dozen as its Executive Director. A graduate of Duke University and Duke University School of Law, Robert is the author of Twisting Title IX, from Encounter Books. While at FIRE, Robert aided students and faculty members at hundreds of colleges and universities and traveled to dozens of campuses to educate students, faculty, and administrators about First Amendment and Title IX issues. A free-speech activist who himself faced campus censorship, Robert’s writing has appeared in many national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, and TIME. He has also represented FIRE on NPR, The O’Reilly Factor, CNN Tonight, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Stossel, Fox & Friends, and CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, as well as many other national and international television and radio programs.
Recent Writings
- Walz/Vance VP debate another reminder it’s time to extinguish the ‘fire in a crowded theater’ trope,
- How academic boycotts threaten academic freedom,
- New Title IX regs are a confusing mess that threaten student rights,
- Fed investigation of Lafayette College over Israel-Hamas protests highlights new threat to free speech,
- Fellowship of Christian Athletes scores big Ninth Circuit win for religious liberty and freedom of association,
- The ‘Twitter Files’ have opened the company's censorship decisions to public scrutiny,
- American Council on Education and 38 other higher ed groups in Supreme Court affirmative action case: On second thought, the chilling effect on speech is a real thing and it’s bad!,
- Cancel culture empowers the powerful — at everyone else’s expense,
- [UPDATED] University of Michigan professor no longer teaching composition seminar after students complain about blackface in 1965 Othello film,
- Remembering September 11, 2001 - 20 Years On,
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