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Research & Learn

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

Learn with FIRE

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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2022 College Free Speech Rankings

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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Supreme Court Cases

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.

FIRE Guides to Student Rights on Campus

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

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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Reports

The Academic Mind in 2022: What Faculty Think About Free Expression and Academic Freedom on Campus

Faculty are split evenly on whether DEI statements are a justifiable requirement for a university job or are an ideological litmus test that violates academic freedom.

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New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)

This is (1964). Legal Question: To what extent does the First Amendment protections for speech and press limit a state's power to award damages in a libel action brought by a public official against critics of his official conduct? Action: The...

New York Times v. Sullivan and its future
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New York Times v. Sullivan and its future

The seminal 1964 Supreme Court decision in New York Times v. Sullivan limited the ability of public officials to silence their critics by successfully suing them for defamation. Sullivan made "American public officials more accountable, the American...

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Student and Administration Equality Act

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Campus Free Expression Act

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Intellectual Freedom Protection Act Draft

FIRE is introducing model legislation that prohibits the use of political litmus tests in college admissions, hiring, and promotion decisions.

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Super Bowl free speech fumble

FIRE's Will Creeley and Aaron Terr join the show to discuss Phoenix, Arizona's unconstitutional "clean zone" for Super Bowl LVII, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's effort to get public school students to volunteer for her re-election campaign,...

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Misinformation versus disinformation, explained

Confusingly, the terms are used interchangeably. But they are different — and the distinction matters.

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Lesson: History of Free Speech Speech

Artificial intelligence: Is it protected by the First Amendment?
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Artificial intelligence: Is it protected by the First Amendment?

What does the rise of artificial intelligence mean for the future of free speech and the First Amendment? Who is liable for what AI produces? Can you own a copyright for works produced by AI? Does AI itself violate intellectual property rights when it...

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FIRE Report: MIT’s Institutional Health

MIT’s innovation is unmatched, and to keep it that way it must defend academic freedom.

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FIRE Quarterly Winter 2023

A Michigan mayor tried to silence her own constituents. So we handed them the mic.

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The costs of offending religious sensitivities

A faculty member at Hamline University lost her job. Twelve staffers at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were murdered. And Salman Rushdie was repeatedly stabbed. All of them offended certain people's religious sensitivities. On today's...

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FIRE Statement on Free Speech and Social Media

FIRE is disturbed by calls for government action to force or pressure social media companies to censor.

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Join FIRE's Alumni Network

Take this course to learn how to build, grow, and maintain an alumni group to support free expression at your alma mater.

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