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FIRE Hot Topics page offers primers on today’s biggest campus rights issues
Curious about some of the hot-button issues related to campus free speech and due process but don’t know where to start?
FIRE’s Hot Topics page is here to get you up to speed, featuring backgrounders on a number of FIRE-related topics. Now on our site, you can find short primers on:
- Microaggressions
- Free Speech Zones
- Due Process
- Sexual Harassment
- Hate Speech
- Title IX
- Affirmative Consent
So if you need a link to send that Facebook commenter who insists there’s a hate speech exception to the First Amendment (there isn’t), or if you’re wondering whether you can legally protest outside your public campus’ “Free Speech Zone” (you can), then head over to FIRE’s Hot Topics page today to learn more.
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s order ‘hardening state government’ against China is dangerously hard to parse
Gov. Abbott issued an executive order that would limit the professional travel of academics at state universities — and surveil their private travel to "foreign adversaries."
Right, left, and in-between: Can we bring our differences to the table?
We may sit on different sides of the table, but we can still meet in the middle by practicing free speech.
From the UK to Germany to Singapore: Police are watching what you post
Police detained a pro-Palestinian activist in London under the UK’s Terrorism Act for, as the arresting officer put it, “making a hate speech.”
Wisconsin school district mulls unconstitutional ‘hate speech’ policy
Baraboo School District is threatening the First Amendment rights of students and faculty with a proposed “Anti-Hate Speech” policy.