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Explore FIRE's expansive library of resources and research on free speech, due process, and other civil liberties. 

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Learn with FIRE provides learners with the opportunity to take courses on a wide range of topics, including free speech and due process, designed by our expert staff.
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The 2022 College Free Speech Rankings are based on the voices of 45,000 currently enrolled students at over 200 colleges.
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Explore Supreme Court opinions, overview essays, academic discussions, and other resources to get the full picture of how the United States’ culture of free speech and First Amendment law has developed over the years.

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FIRE’s Guides to Student Rights on Campus emphasize the critical importance of rule of law and fair procedure over partisan and repressive rules.
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Scholars Under Fire: 2021 Year in Review

Over the past seven years, 537 incidents targeting a scholar for some form of professional sanction over constitutionally protected speech have occurred in higher education, and almost two-thirds of these targeting incidents have resulted in a sanction.
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‘So to Speak’ podcast transcript: The Stanford shout-down with David Lat

David Lat joins So to Speak, the free speech podcast, where every other week we take an uncensored look at the world of free expression through personal stories and candid conversations.

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FIRE Letter to University of Utah, March 23, 2023

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The Stanford shout-down with David Lat

UPDATE: Just as this podcast was to be published, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez sent to the law school community outlining a path forward for the school, including updating school policies to prevent future speaker disruptions and mandatory...

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Guides

FIRE Guide for Greek Organizational Advisors

Based on FIRE's 24 years of campus advocacy, this guide is designed to help chapter advisors navigate the labyrinth of campus disciplinary proceedings.

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Guides

FIRE Guide for Greek Life: Know Your Rights

This guide provides fraternity and sorority members with a concise summary of their fundamental free speech, freedom of association, and due process rights.

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Curricula

Teaching Healthy Discourse

This unit provides students with information and strategies for engaging in meaningful conversations with their peers.

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Debate Activity Kit

Students who wish to be effective, persuasive communicators must develop argumentation skills.

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Handling Offensive Speech

This unit will address the social-emotional aspects of dealing with unwelcome but protected speech, and covers ways that students can build resilience, refutation, self-advocacy, and coping skills.

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Election Lesson

This featured lesson provides educators with a structured lesson plan and a range of resources designed to help them lead successful classroom discussions of the competing candidates and issues, even during a contentious election year.

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The Law and Free Speech

This lesson explores the landmark cases and legal reasoning behind the strong speech protections that Americans uniquely enjoy, while correcting some common misconceptions.

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Speech, Power, and Censorship in American History

Free speech rights have proven themselves essential in securing a fair hearing for demands for justice and equal Constitutional protection for marginalized groups and isolated, targeted individuals throughout U.S. history.

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Current Free Speech Issues

This lesson explores some of the most popular arguments against free speech and how to respond to them, as well as why it can be important to voice your opinion, even if it’s an unpopular one.

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The Philosophy of Free Speech

This unit reviews the unique inheritance of basic rights and freedoms bestowed on all American citizens by our founding documents, which draw from Enlightenment conceptions of liberty and individual human dignity.

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Ben Franklin and the First Amendment

Ben Franklin was an influential champion of free speech and freedom of the press during the founding and formation of the United States of America. This lesson takes a look at two of Franklin’s works – Silence Dogood No. 8 and “On the Freedom of the Press” in order to gain insight into his thinking about two of our fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.

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Interview

‘So to Speak’ podcast transcript: Ilya Shapiro on Fox/Dominion and his 'cancel culture nightmare'

Ilya Shapiro joins So to Speak, the free speech podcast, where every other week we take an uncensored look at the world of free expression through personal stories and candid conversations.

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