The Trump administration has defended its ban on the three media outlets in a court filing.

Is LPE scholarship anti-empirical? Has contemporary law and economics become a neutral social science? Don't believe everything you hear in Chicago.

<p><span>The prohibition against viewpoint discrimination is one of the oldest and most important principles of First Amendment law. But what it means to viewpo

<p><span>The prohibition against viewpoint discrimination is one of the oldest and most important principles of First Amendment law. But what it means to viewpo

For decades, it has been black letter law that the informal exercise of government power can violate the First Amendment when it creates an “informal system of censorship.” Lower courts have been deep...

Podcast Episode · Lawyering Without Law · May 1 · 39m

Professor Derek Peterson said nothing wrong. That’s exactly why the University of Michigan punished him

MEMORANDUM OPINION GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS AND ORDER: For the foregoing reasons, the defendant's motion to dismiss with prejudice (Dkt. 121) is granted. Plaintiffs' motion to reinstate the prelimin...

Genevieve Lakier, Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning, __ Univ. Chi. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN (Mar. 01, 2025).Leah LitmanToo often, our “free speech culture” ...

Genevieve Lakier, Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning, __ Univ. Chi. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN (Mar. 01, 2025).Leah LitmanToo often, our “free speech culture” ...

Ten months ago, Columbia announced it would conduct a “thorough review” of the University’s approach to Middle Eastern studies to ensure “balanced” curricula across departments. Already feeling the ef...

<p><span>This essay argues that last term’s decision in <i>TikTok v. Garland</i>, which unanimously upheld the federal law that sought to ban TikTok in the Unit

Podcast Episode · Supreme Betrayal: How the Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Have Failed America · 12/05/2025 · 58m

News Podcast · Sitting in their marble palace, dressed in their black robes, Supreme Court Justices would like us to believe that they are wise and disinterested oracles dispensing words of truth and ...

Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.

No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.

Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.

Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.