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Showing posts with label First Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Amendment. Show all posts
Friday, November 1, 2024

New book spotlights freedom of press in film

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My friend and colleague Helen J. Knowles-Gardner , formerly a political science professor and now research director at the Institute for Fr...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

High court construes tenure contract to constrain faculty salary cuts at Tufts medical school

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TUSM Arnold Wing, 2012, Boston John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Academic freedom won a rare court victory last week when the Mas...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Book supports legal privilege for undercover reporting

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Truth and Transparency , a recent book by Professors Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau , is a comprehensive and gratifying tour of the histor...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Smart but unconstitutional? Trump appointee inverts Scalia maxim in striking corporate transparency law

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"Corporate Transparency," Seattle by Daniel Foster via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 A federal district court in Alabama ruled the Corpo...
Saturday, March 2, 2024

Observers comment on Assange extradition hearings

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My thanks to Assange Defense Boston for organizing the Massachusetts State House rally on February 20 (above). Assange Defense Boston poste...
Friday, March 1, 2024

State high court simplifies anti-SLAPP, draws picture

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Notwithstanding the merits of anti- SLAPP statutes—I've opined plenty , including a catalog of problems —the Supreme Judicial Court of ...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Student media combat criminalization of speech

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The criminalization of journalism is the worry at the heart of the Julian Assange case, as a UK court mulls the possibility of his extraditi...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

To combat corruption, India Supreme Court strikes down dark money system, cites U.S. precedents

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Late last week, the Supreme Court of India struck a blow for transparency and accountability when it ruled unconstitutional a system of ano...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Assange Defense Boston rallies at State House

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The Boston Committee of Assange Defense rallied today at the Massachusetts State House. At the rally today, I spoke about my experience wi...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Me and Julian Assange

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WikiLeaks founder battles extradition in UK courts Julian Assange, 2014 Cancillería del Ecuador via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 I'm as close to...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

War protests expose double standards in higher ed

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Ted Eytan CC BY-SA 4.0 I've refrained from commenting on the Israel-Hamas war, specifically and especially on the eruption of conflict,...