Letter from Concerned U.S. Law Professors Re: House Committee Investigation
[NOTE: A version of this letter was delivered to the Committee on April 17, 2024. We continue to invite signatures from all U.S. law professors.]
Congresswoman Virginia Foxx
Chairwoman, Committee on Education & the Workforce
United States House of Representatives
Committee on Education & the Workforce
U.S. House of Representatives
2176 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Re: House Committee “Investigation” Against Rutgers-Newark’s Center for Security, Race and Rights & Professor Sahar Aziz
Dear Chairwoman Virginia Foxx and Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce:
We, the undersigned, comprise a group of racially, religiously, and ideologically diverse law professors from across the United States. Notwithstanding our differences, we are unified in condemning the House Committee on Education and the Workforce (the “Committee”) March 27, 2024 letter announcing a congressional investigation targeting the Rutgers University Newark Center for Security, Race, and Rights (the “Center”) and Professor Sahar Aziz, the Center’s founder and executive director.[1] The Committee’s actions, which follow a similar February 6, 2024 letter from Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans,[2] threaten core American commitments to free speech and academic freedom.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has celebrated free speech as the “bedrock of American liberty.”[3] The Constitution, to which our elected officials pledge fealty, obligates members of Congress and academic leaders at Rutgers University to safeguard the speech rights of all Rutgers’ faculty and academic centers.[4] The Supreme Court has affirmed this foundational constitutional principle: “The vigilant protection of constitutional freedoms is nowhere more vital than in the community of American schools.”[5]
Elected officials are free to denounce ideas with which they disagree. But they may not abuse their constitutional office to intimidate, harass, and silence legitimate discourse by academics or others they happen to dislike. In our view, the Committee’s March 27, 2024 letter does just that: it is a politically motivated and viewpoint-based attack on the Center and a tenured university professor. Beyond threatening a bedrock constitutional value of American liberty, the Committee’s conduct compromises a separate pillar of our democratic republic: academic freedom.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)[6] explains that “[e]ducators on college and university campuses must be free to speak their minds, ask tough questions, and facilitate learning without the threat of institutional censorship, coercion, or intimidation.”[7] This sentiment echoes foundational Supreme Court jurisprudence:
[O]ur nation is deeply committed to safeguarding academic freedom, which is of transcendent value to all of us and not merely to the teachers concerned. Academic freedom is therefore a special concern of the First Amendment. It does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom.[8]
The Committee’s letter expresses “grave concerns regarding the inadequacy of Rutgers’ response to antisemitism on its campuses.”[9] We, too, care deeply about our Jewish students, colleagues, friends, and families. We are committed, unequivocally, to combating antisemitism and all other forms of structural and ideological bigotry and subordination. But the Committee’s attacks against the Center and Professor Aziz do not represent an earnest effort to reckon with antisemitism at Rutgers, or elsewhere: they are part of a cynical campaign to censor dissenting speech and delegitimize open and inclusive academic inquiry and engagement.
Founded in 2018, the Center remains the only academic center at a U.S. law school with the specific mission to research, educate, and advocate for the civil and human rights of South Asians, Muslims, and Arabs. As noted on its website and reflected in its programming, the Center “supports pluralism, religious freedom, and racial equality.”[10] Like the other thirteen academic centers at Rutgers Law School, the Center is a site of robust intellectual life that regularly invites a diverse range of scholars to address matters of public concern in the United States and abroad.[11] The Rutgers’ AAUP-AFT faculty union recently lauded the Center for furthering the university’s mission to be “a national leader in 21st-century higher education through a commitment to the values of educating a diverse citizenry, producing high impact scholarship, engaging in our community as an anchor institution, and drawing the connection between local and global, for the improvement of the economic and social well-being of society as a whole.”[12]
The Center’s first lecture this academic year “addressed how international law developed to prosecute Nazis after the Holocaust set the foundation for subsequent prosecutions of state officials for war crimes and violations of human rights.”[13] We find it notable–and telling–that of the nearly 90 lectures the Center has hosted since its founding, the Committee identifies as “antisemitic” only those in which a speaker is of Palestinian ancestry or expresses pro-Palestinian viewpoints.[14] We also note the irony of the Committee’s accusation that the Center’s recent report Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine-Israel Discourse “delegitimizes victims of antisemitism.”[15] That report, co-authored with a Jewish American expert on Israel-Palestine, documents the precise conduct in which the Committee is now engaging: mobilization of Islamophobic tropes to “fuel and sustain spurious allegations of antisemitism” to discredit and delegitimize critics of Israeli policy and military action.[16]
The fact that the Committee is targeting the only Muslim Arab woman on the Rutgers Law Faculty (comprised of 130 professors) further evidences the improper motivations underlying the Committee’s actions. A “Distinguished Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar,” Professor Aziz is a renowned expert on the “intersection of national security, race, religion and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impact of national security laws and policies on racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.”[17] Professor Aziz has won multiple prestigious awards, authored the groundbreaking book The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, and recently served as the William & Patricia Kleh Visiting Professor in International Law at Boston University School of Law.[18]
We may disagree with certain of the views which have been expressed at Center-sponsored events or publications. However, we recognize that disagreement is an inevitable—and, yes, critically important—component of robust academic discourse. It is deeply disturbing to witness a Congressional committee attempt to “cancel” a tenured professor because they dislike the views expressed in her scholarship and academic programming on controversial matters of pressing public concern.
We close with the words of the distinguished Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels, who wrote an insightful 2021 Washington Post op-ed titled “Why authoritarian regimes attack universities.”[19] Citing global examples that include the Taliban, Benito Mussolini, and Victor Orban, President Daniels clarifies what many of us intuitively understand: “Independent universities unnerve authoritarians because everything that these institutions strive to achieve is inimical to the autocrat’s devotion to the accumulation and arbitrary exercise of coercive public power.”[20] President Daniels presciently cautioned that “no democracy can prosper without independent universities to forge a bedrock of objective fact, to preserve and interrogate the nation’s collective past, to cultivate diverse and pluralistic communities, and to educate students in the skills necessary for active and engaged citizenship.”[21]
In wielding federal power and authority to silence the Center and Professor Aziz, the Committee’s efforts share alarming parallels with tactics employed by the foreign authoritarians Daniels identifies. The Committee’s conduct constitutes a naked assault on the academic right of every college and university professor to engage in teaching, research and scholarship free from political interference and intimidation. Our present concern, accordingly, extends beyond Professor Aziz and the Center for Security, Race and Rights. The Committee’s attack on education and the freedom to learn threatens American freedom and our constitutional democracy itself.
To this end, we call on Chairwoman Foxx to practice what she preaches. We agree with her statement that “[w]ielding government power as a cudgel against political or cultural adversaries is one of the most ancient forms of bullying.”[22] We also share Chairwoman Foxx’s concern that, in situations like this, “[t]he simple truth is that when the federal government controls education, it controls society itself.”[23]
Thus, we respectfully petition the Committee to cease its unfounded and unconstitutional investigation against Rutgers University, the Center, and Professor Sahar Aziz.
Further, we urge all members of Congress—particularly New Jersey’s delegation—to denounce the Committee’s abuse of power.
Moreover, we invite the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education to investigate the Committee’s abuse of power during her upcoming site visit to the United States.
Finally, in a spirit of solidarity, we remind the leaders of Rutgers University of their obligation to defend all of their academic centers and faculty members from political interference and threats.
Very truly yours,
To sign this statement, complete this Google Form. Signatures will be added regularly. Thank you for adding your voice to this pressing matter.
Signatories:*
- Richard L. Abel, Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA
- David Abraham, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law
- Kathryn Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, UC-Berkeley Law School
- Tendayi Achiume, Professor of Law, UCLA Law School
- Jabeen Adawi, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law
- Beena Ahmad, Assistant Professor, City University School of Law
- Amna A. Akbar, Professor of Law, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law
- Susan Akram, Clinical Professor and Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Boston University School of Law
- Raquel Aldana, Professor of Law, UC Davis
- Taifha Alexander, CRT Forward Project Director, UCLA School of Law
- Michael P. Ambrosio, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University Law School
- Penelope Andrews, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, New York Law School
- Sameer M. Ashar, Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law
- LaToya Baldwin Clark, Professor, UCLA School of Law
- Asli Bali, Professor of Law, Yale University
- Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, University of California, Irvine
- Steven W. Bender, Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
- Khaled Beydoun, Professor of Law, ASU Law School
- Nikolas Bowie, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Carolyn J Brown, Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Law Library, Seton Hall Law
- Amber Cain, Technology and Research Services Librarian, and Assistant Professor, Seton Hall Law
- Eduardo R.C. Capulong, Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
- Jennifer M. Chacon, Professor of Law, Stanford School of Law
- Sumi Cho, Director of Strategic Initiatives, African American Policy Forum
- Todd R. Clear, Distinguished University Professor, Rutgers Law School and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
- Laura Cohen, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Donna Coker, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law
- Jenny-Brooke Condon, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
- Roberto Corrada, Professor of Law, University of Denver
- Kimberle W. Crenshaw, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School & UCLA School of Law
- Peggy Cooper Davis, Shad Professor of Law, New York University
- Angela J. Davis, Distinguished Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- Meera E Deo, The Honorable Vaino Spencer Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
- Orlando Dickson, Lecturer, University at Buffalo Law School
- Ryan Doerfler, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Veena Dubal, Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine
- Jon C. Dubin, Board of Governers Distinguished Service Professor, Distinguished Professor of Law, and Paul Robeson Scholar, Rutgers Law School
- Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law
- Joseph Fishkin, Professor of Law, UCLA
- Mary Louise Frampton, Professor of Law Emerita, UC Davis School of Law
- Kris Franklin, Wallace Stevens Professor of Law, New York Law School
- César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Professor of Law and Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Ohio State University
- Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago Law School
- Rashmi Goel, Professor of Law, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
- Laura E. Gomez, Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in Law, UCLA
- Marc-Tizoc González, Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
- Verónica C. Gonzales, Associate Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
- Ariela Gross, Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
- Catherine Grosso, Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law
- Jonathan Hafetz, Professor of Law, Seton Hall School of Law
- Hiba Hafiz, Associate Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
- Eve Hanan, Professor of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas
- Joan Howarth, Dean Emerita, Michigan State University College of Law
- Ian Haney-Lopez, Distinguished Professor and Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, University of California, Berkeley
- Cheryl I Harris, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
- Angela Harris, Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
- Tanya Hernandez, Professor of Law, Fordham University
- Emily Houh, Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of the Law and Contracts, University of Cincinnati
- Chaumtoli Huq, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- Lucy Jewel, Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law
- Paula C. Johnson, Professor, Syracuse University College of Law
- Jerry Kang, Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
- Diane (Klein) Kemker, Visiting Professor of Law, Southern University Law Center
- Randall Kennedy, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Duncan Kennedy, Professor of Law Emeritus, Harvard Law School
- Abdul Rehman Khan, Assistant Clinical Professor, Seton Hall Law School
- Thomas Kleven, Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
- Jasleen Kohli, Executive Director, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law
- Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar, The University of Chicago Law School
- Brian Leiter, Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School
- Chunlin Leonhard, Leon Sarpy Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans
- Arthur S Leonard, Professor of Law Emeritus, New York Law School
- Edwin Lindo, Associate Teaching Professor, University of Washington
- Aaron Littman, Assistant Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
- David Lopez, University Professor and Co-Dean Emeritus, Rutgers Law
- Gerald P. Lopez, Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA School of Law
- Beth Lyon, Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
- David Lyons, Professor Emeritus of Law and of Philosophy, Boston University
- Tayyab Mahmud, Professor of Law, Seattle University
- Leo P. Martinez, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law Emeritus, UC College of Law, San Francisco
- Solangel Maldonado, Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
- Emmanuel Mauleón, Greenberg Teaching Fellow, UCLA Law
- M Isabel Medina, Ferris Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
- Martha McCluskey, Professor Emerita, University at Buffalo
- Eric J. Miller, Professor and Leo J. O’Brien Fellow, LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- S. David Mitchell, Ruth L. Hulston Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law
- Margaret Montoya, Professor Emerita of Law, University of New Mexico
- Daniel I. Morales, Associate Professor, Dwight Olds Chair in Law, University of Houston Law Center
- Janet Moore, Professor Emerita, University of Cincinnati College of Law
- Justin Murray, Associate Professor, New York Law School
- Athena Mutua, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo, School of Law
- Makau Mutua, SUNY Distinguished Professor, SUNY Buffalo Law School
- Dr. Dagmar Myslinska, Associate Professor of Law, Creighton University
- Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Practice, New York University
- Anthony O’Rourke, Joseph W. Belluck and Laura L. Aswad Professor, University at Buffalo of Law, SUNY
- Mariela Olivares, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
- K-Sue Park, Professor of Law, UCLA
- Sanjukta Paul, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
- Russell G. Pearce, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
- Tara Adams Ragone, Assistant Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law
- Aziz Rana, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
- Vernellia R. Randall, Professor Emerita of Law, The University of Dayton School of Law
- Kim D. Ricardo, Professor & Associate Dean of Experiential Education, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
- Willmai Rivera-Pérez, Associate Professor, Southern University Law Center
- Joseph Rosenberg, Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- Sean Scott, Professor, California Western School of Law
- Theodore P. Seto, Hon. Frederick J. Lower, Jr. Chair and Professor of Law, LMU Loyola Law School
- Ragini Shah, Clinical Professor of Law, Suffolk University
- Fred Smith, Jr., Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University
- Chantal Thomas, Professor of Law, Cornell University
- Kendall Thomas, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
- Gerald Torres, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Francisco Valdes, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law
- Sheila I. Velez Martinez, Jack and Lovell Olender Professor of Asylum Refugee and Immigration Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- Alicia Virani, Director, Criminal Justice Program, UCLA School of Law
- Leti Volpp, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
- Deborah M. Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Niel G. Williams, Nathaniel Jones, Jr. Professor of Law and Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago
- Noah Zatz, Professor of Law and Labor Studies, UCLA
- Adnan Zulfiqar, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Charisa Smith, Professor of Law, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law
- Chaz D. Brooks, Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- Evangeline Sarda, Associate Clinical Law Professor, Boston College Law School
- Diego H. Alcala Laboy, Assistant Professor of Law, Delaware Law School
- Erin Tomlinson, Instructor, CUNY School of Law
- Natsu Taylor Saito, Regents’ Professor Emerita, Georgia State University College of Law
- I. India Thusi, Professor of Law & Senior Scientist, Indiana University Maurer School of Law & The Kinsey Institute
- Angi Porter, Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- Natalie M. Chin, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- Jenny E. Carroll, Wiggins, Child, Quinn & Pantazis Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law
- Nancy E Dowd, Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita, University of Florida College of Law
- Seema Mohapatra, Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law
- Irus Braverman, Professor of Law & Adjunct Professor of Geography, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
- Jules Lobel, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh Law School
- Rachel Rosenbloom, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
- Adrienne Davis, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law, Washington University
- Anna Roberts, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Brian Owsley, Associate Professor, UNT Dallas College of Law
- Zahr Said, Professor of Law, University of Washington
- Carol Mallory, Teaching Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
- Margaret W. Bowman, Associate Professor of Law, University of Tulsa
- Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School
- Frank Deale, Professor of Law, CUNY Law School
- Justin Hansford, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
- Kaaryn S. Gustafson, Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law
- Steve Zeidman, Professor, CUNY School of Law
- Jessica Dixon Weaver, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
- Shanda Sibley, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
- Carol L. Chomsky, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
- Anthony Paul Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Albany Law School
- Kevin B. Kelly, Associate Clinical Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law
- S. David Mitchell, Ruth L. Hulston Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law
- Luke Herrine, Assistant Professor of Law, Alabama Law
- SpearIt, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- Akilah Folami, Law Professor, Hofstra University
- Darren Bush, Professor, University of Houston Law Center
- Kathryn Sabbeth, Professor of Law, Rutgers University-Newark
- Brian Soucek, Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Fellow, University of California, Davis School of Law
- Zsea Bowmani, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law
- Margaret M. Russell, Law Professor, Santa Clara University
- Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Professor of Law, Temple University
- Jeena Shah, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- Ethan J Leib, John D Calamari Distinguished Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
- Kenneth B. Nunn, Professor of Law, Emeritus, University of Florida
- Katherine Franke, James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University
- Alicia Ely Yamin, Lecturer, Harvard Law School
- Matthew Lister, Associate Professor of Law, Bond University (Australia) Faculty of Law
- Jennifer S. Hendricks, Professor, University of Colorado
- Galina Abdel Aziz, Assistant Professor & Faculty Services Librarian, Seton Hall Law School
- Russell K. Robinson, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law & Faculty Director, Center on Race, Sexuality & Culture, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- Lama Abu Odeh, Law Professor, Georgetown Law
- Arlene Amarante, Associate Professor, Lincoln Memorial University
- Pedro A. Malavet, Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
- Farshad Ghodoosi, Assistant Professor of Business Law, California State University, Northridge
- April Dawson, Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation and Professor of Law, North Carolina Central University School of Law
- Yelena Duterte, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
- Ann Cammett, Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- Emily Hammond, Professor of Law, The George Washington University
- Barbara Atwell, Law Professor, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
- Ruqaiijah Yearby, Kara J Trott Professor in Health Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University’s
- Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo School of Law
- Saskia Valencia, Clinical Legal Fellow, Brooklyn Law School
- Prianka Nair, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Aníbal Rosario Lebrón, Associate Professor, Rutgers Law
- Andrew Hammond, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Shirley Lung, Professor, CUNY School of Law
- Caitlin Glass, Visiting Lecturer and Clinical Instructor, Boston University School of Law
- Jonathan Gingerich, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law, Boston university School of Law
- Andrew Foster, Clinical Professor of Law, Duke Law School
- Faisal Chaudhry, Assistant Professor of Law and History, University of Massachusetts School of Law
- Leigh Goodmark, Marjorie Cook Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
- Cyra Akila Choudhury, Professor of Law, FIU College of Law
- Angelo Petrigh, Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law
- Elissa Steglich, Clinical Professor, University of Texas School of Law
- Bonny Tavares Dean, Associate Professor, Temple University Beasley School of Law
- Jane E. Cross, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, & Public Impact, and Director of the Caribbean Law Program, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
- Shirley Lin, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Thomas Healy, Board of Visitors Distinguished Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
- Maneka, Sinha, Associate Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
- Erica B Schommer, Clinical Professor of Law, St. Mary’s University School of Law
- Kimberly Bailey, Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law
- Brooks Holland, Professor of Law, Gonzaga University School of Law
- Teri McMurtry-Chubb, Professor of Law, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
- Mark Bartholomew, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo School of Law
- Rob Hochbaum, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
- Almas Khan, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Mississippi School of Law
- Jennifer Moore, Regents’ Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
- Greg Baltz, Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Aliza Organick, Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
- James Gathii, Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Matthew Charity, Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- Neil Gotanda, Professor Emeritus, Western State College of Law
- Carl H. Coleman, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
- Faiza Sayed, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Franklin Siegel, Distinguished Lecturer (Retired), CUNY School of Law
- Aissatou Barry, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Vijay Raghavan, Associate Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Louis Raveson, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Chrystin Ondersma, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Sarah Lorr, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Sarah Katz, Clinical Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
- Gautam Hans, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
- Eric Franklin Amarante, Associate Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law
- Zinaida Miller, Professor of Law & International Affairs, Northeastern University School of Law
- Ramsi Woodcock, Associate Professor of Law, University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law
- David D. Troutt, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School-Newark
- Brandon Weiss Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- Beth Stephens, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Kathryn Sabbeth, Professor of Law, Rutgers University
- Danielle Kie Hart, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
- Thomas Williams, Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- Babe Howell, Professor, CUNY School of Law
- Susan Carle, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- Robert K Goldman, Professor of Law & Louis C James Scholar, American University Washington College of Law
- Alexander A. Boni-Saenz, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
- James Silk, Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights, Yale Law School
- Maryam Jamshidi, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
- Beth G. Schwartz, Clinical Professor of Law Emerita, Fordham University School of Law
- Erin M. Carr, Assistant Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
- Charles R. Lawrence III, Professor of Law, Emeritus, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii
- Ande Davis, Teaching Fellow, Washburn University School of Law
- Binny Miller, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Experiential Education, American University, Washington College of Law
- Randle DeFalco, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law
- Jorge Contesse, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Kenneth Lawson, Co-Director, Hawaii Innocence Project, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
- Adam Davidson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
- Lydia X. Z. Brown, Lecturer in Disability Studies and Vice Chair of the Disability Rights Bar Association, Georgetown University
- Mary Marsh Zulack, Clinical Professor Emerita, Columbia University School of Law
- Susan Serrano, Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Judith Fox, Clinical Professor Emerita, Notre Dame Law School
- Allison Tait, Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Faculty, University of Richmond School of Law
- Alexander A. Reinert, Max Freund Professor of Litigation and Advocacy, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- Andrea J. Boyack, Floyd R. Gibson Endowed Professor, University of Missouri School of Law
- Benjamin Davis, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law
- Dara Purvis, Associate Dean of Research and Partnerships and Professor, Penn State Law
- Rebecca Redwood French, Roger and Karen Jones Distinguished, Research Faculty and Professor SUNY Buffalo School of Law
- Eric Yamamoto, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Hawaii Law School
- Amy Cohen, Robert J Reinstein Chair in Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
- Kermit Roosevelt, David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
- Ellen Yaroshefsky, Professor of legal Ethics, Hofstra Law School
- David Oppenheimer, Clinical Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
- Michael Pinard, Francis & Harriet Iglehart Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
- Martha R. Mahoney, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law
- Caitlin Barry, Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
- Christine Haight Farley, Professor, American University Washington College of Law
- Randi Mandelbaum, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Nicole B. Godfrey, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law
- Colleen Campbell, Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra School of Law
- Lawrence Sager, Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law
- Carlos Ball, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Donna Nixon, Librarian and Clinical Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Stacy Caplow, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Susan D. Bennett, Professor Emerita of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- Anjali Vats, Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
- Florence Wagman Roisman, William F. Harvey Professor of Law and Chancellor's Professor, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
- Anita Sinha, Professor of Law, American University
- Paula Galowitz, Clinical Professor of Law Emerita, New York University School of Law
- Luke Norris, Professor, University of Richmond School of Law
- Vincent Southerland, Associate Professor of Clinical Law, NYU School of Law
- Ann Eisenberg, Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law
- Jasbir Bawa, Asst Prof. of Lawyering Skills, Howard University School of Law
- Robert S. Chang, Professor of Law and Executive Director, Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, Seattle University School of Law
- Ndjuoh MehChu, Associate Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
- Lisa A. Crooms-Robinson, Professor, Howard University School of Law
- Daria Fisher Page, Clinical Professor of Law/Associate Dean of Clinical Programs, University of Iowa College of Law
- Stephen Rosenbaum, Frank C. Newman Lecturer, UC, Berkeley School of Law
- Cesar F. Rosado Marzan, Edward Carmody Professor of Law, University of Iowa
- Audrey G. McFarlane, Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law
- Jane M. Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law Emerita, Columbia Law School
- John Capowski, Professor of Law Emeritus, Widener Commonwealth Law School
- Adil Haque, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Karen U. Lindell, Senior Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
- Aparna Polavarapu, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
- Christian Sundquist, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- Kimani Paul-Emile, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
- Alec Walen, Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers University
- Emily Berman, Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
- Maurice Dyson, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School
- Gilbert Paul Carrasco, Professor of Law Emeritus, Willamette University College of Law
- Yvette Butler, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Upendra D Acharya, Professor of Law, Gonzaga University
- Barbara O'Brien, Professor, Michigan State University College of Law
- Dennis Prieto, Associate Professor and Reference Librarian, Rutgers Law School
- Omavi Shukur, Associate Research Scholar, Columbia University
- Faisal Kutty, Professor, Southwestern Law School
- Mohammad Fadel, Professor of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
- Sarah L. Swan, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Evelyn Malavé, Associate Professor of Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
- Shirin Sinnar, Professor of Law, Stanford University
- Craig Jackson, Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University
- Rachel E. VanLandingham, Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
- Jennifer Laws, Senior Lecturer, The University of New Mexico School of Law
- Katheryn Russell-Brown, Professor of Law, University of Florida
- Dana Lee, Assistant Professor of Law, UCI School of Law
- Mark Cammack, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
- Ata Hindi, Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane Law School
- Jennifer Brown, Associate Director, Hawai’i Innocence Project, University of Hawai’i, William S. Richardson School of Law
- Nadia Ahmad, Associate Professor of Law, Barry University
- Richard Buxbaum, Jackson H. Ralston Professor of International Law (Emeritus), Berkeley Law
- Gowri Krishna, Professor of Law, New York Law School
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- Tomar Pierson-Brown, Assistant Professor of Law, University Pittsburgh School of Law
- Guadalupe Luna, Professor Emerita, NIU College of Law
- Antonia Eliason, Associate Professor, University of Mississippi School of Law
- Elizabeth Berenguer, Associate Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law
- Reena Parikh, Assistant Clinical Professor, Boston College Law School
- Vanessa Racehorse, Assistant Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
- LeRoy Pernell, Professor of Law, Florida A&M University College of Law
- Maha Ayesh, Director of Experiential Learning and Assistant Professor of Law, Lincoln Memorial University School of Law
- Llezlie Green, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
- Seema Saifee, Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Rob Howse, Lloyd C Nelson Professor of International Law, NYU Law
- Claudia Angelos, Clinical Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
- Laura Rovner, Professor of Law, University of Denver College of Law
- Rene Reyes, Associate Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School
- Lawrence Carl Levine, Professor of Law, U. of the Pacific - McGeorge Sch. of Law
- Nina Farnia, Assistant Professor of Law, Albany Law School
- Darren Hutchinson, Professor & John Lewis Chair for Civil Rights and Social Justice, Emory University School of Law
- Marjorie A. Silver, Professor of Law, Touro University Law Center
- Leslie Rose, Professor Emerita, Golden Gate University
- Erin M. Carr, Assistant Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
- Wendy B Scott, Professor & Associate Dean Special Projects, Elon University School of Law
- Gregory P. Magarian, Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
- Bijal Shah, Associate Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
- Kenneth W. Mack, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Jennifer J. Lee, Associate Professor of Law, Temple Law School
- Donna H. Lee, Professor, CUNY School of Law
- Yasmin Sokkar Harker, Law Library Professor, CUNY Law
- Nermeen Arastu, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- Rebecca Scott, Professor of History and Professor of Law, University of Michigan
- Anil Kalhan, Professor of Law, Drexel University
- Priscilla A. Ocen, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- Alexi Pfeffer-Gillett, Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Shauhin Talesh, Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine
- Saleema Snow, Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
- Erika K Wilson, Professor of Law & Wade Edwards Distinguished Scholar, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Thalia González, Professor of Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- David M. Forman, Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
- Jamillah Bowman Williams, Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Workers' Rights Institute, Georgetown University
- Vishnu Sridharan, Postdoctoral Fellow in Law and Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
- Lauren van Schilfgaarde, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Law
- Sheila Foster, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law; Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University
- Girardeau A Spann, James and Catherine Denny Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
- Irene Ten Cate, Associate Professor of Legal Writing, Brooklyn Law School
- Sandeep Dhaliwal, Research Scholar & Clinical Teaching Fellow, NYU School of Law
- Sherally Munshi, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown
- Karen Pita Loor, Clinical Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
- Daria Roithmayr, Provost Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
- Etienne C. Toussaint, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
- Jon Hanson, Professor of Law, Harvard University
- James (Jim) Cavallaro, Visiting Professor, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
- Janet Halley, Eli Goldston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- W. David Ball, Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law
- Allegra McLeod, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- Anne Gordon, Clinical Professor of Law , Duke Law School
- Ruhan Nagra, Associate Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
- Thomas E. Kadri, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia School of Law
- Hallie Jay Pope, Visiting Associate Professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
- Alina Das, Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law
- Avidan Cover, Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- Victoria Sahani, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
- Tarek Z. Ismail, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- Colin Dayan, Professor of English and Professor of Law Emerita, Vanderbilt
- Sam Erman, Professor, University of Michigan
- Margaret B. Drew, Associate Professor of Law, University of Massachusetts School of Law
- Tianna Gibbs, Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
- Leila Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University School of Law
- Dehlia Umunna, Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Constance de la Vega, Professor Emeritus, University of San Francisco
- Jason D. Williamson, Adjunct Clinical Faculty Member, New York University School of Law
- Michael Karanicolas, Executive Director - Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, UCLA
- Matiangai Sirleaf, Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law
- Julie Goldscheid, Professor of Law Emeritus, CUNY Law School
- Raff Donelson, Associate Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
- Katharine Baker, University Distinguished Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
- Lua Kamal Yuille, Professor, Northeastern University
- Portia Pedro, Associate Professor of Law, Boston University
- Carla Laroche, Associate Professor of Law, Tulane Law School
- Manoj Mate, Associate Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
- Marissa Jackson Sow, Associate Professor, University of Richmond School of Law
- Monte Mills, Charles I. Stone Professor and Director, Native American Law Center, University of Washington School of Law
- Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Andrea Curcio, Professor, Georgia State University College of Law
- Nyamagaga R. Gondwe, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
- Eric Wright, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
- Maria C. O’Brien, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
- John Teeter, Professor of Law, St. Mary's University School of Law
- Kathleen (Cookie) Ridolfi, Professor Emeritis, Santa Clara University School of Law
- Cynthia Lee, Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
- Karl Klare, George J. & Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
- Martin Levy, Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
- Jared Trujillo, Associate Professor, CUNY School of Law
- Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University
- Laurel Fletcher, Chancellor's Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- Justin Levitt, Professor of Law, LMU Loyola Law School
- Margalynne J. Armstrong, Associate Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
- Jonathan Harris, Associate Professor of Law, LMU Loyola Law School
- Ruth Coker, Heck-Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
- Dana Sajsi, Associate Professor, Boston College
- Charles I. Auffant, Clinical Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law
- Carmen Gonzalez, Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Sacha M. Coupet, Morris I. Leibman Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Anita Sinha, Professor of Law, AU Washington College of Law
- Hannah Demeritt, Clinical Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
- Margaret Burnham, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
- John Torok, Lecturer, Labor and Community Studies, City College of San Francisco
- Deborah Archer, Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law
- Richard Winchester, Associate Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
- Magaret Satterthwaite, Professor of Clinical Law, NYU School of Law
- Leticia Saucedo, Professor of Law, UC Davis
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- Kevin Brown, Mitchell Willoughby Professor, Joseph Rice School of Law of the University of South Carolina
- Juan F. Perea, Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago
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- Ahilan Arulanantham, Professor from Practice, UCLA School of Law
- Nomi Stolzenberg, Professor, USC Gould Law School
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- Gloria Valencia-Weber, Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico School of Law
- James Tierney, Assistant Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law
- Evelyn Douek, Assistant Professor, Stanford Law School
- Laila Hlass, Clinical Professor of Law, Tulane Law School
- Christopher Lau , Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School
- Julie C. Suk, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
- Kim Abubakar Ali Forde-Mazrui, Mortimer M. Caplin Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
- Mary Yanik, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Tulane Law School
- Jeannine Bell, Curt & Linda Rodin Professor of Law & Social Justice, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Deborah Hellman, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
- Clare R. Norins, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Georgia School of Law
- Sarah Dadush, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
- Gustavo Ribeiro, Assistant Professor, American University Washington College of Law
- Laura Padilla, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law
- Jill Engle, Professor of Law, Penn State Law (University Park)
- Laura A. Hernandez, Professor of Law, Baylor Law School
- Adam Herpolsheimer, Adjunct Professor and Law & Policy Analyst, Temple University Beasley School of Law - Center for Public Health Law Research
- Liliana Zaragoza, Associate Professor of Clinical Law & Director, Racial Justice Law Clinic, University of Minnesota
- Jennifer Rosen Valverde, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law, Rutgers U. School of Law
- Roxanna Altholz, Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- Bassam Khawaja, Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School
- Bridgette Baldwin, Professor of Law, Western New England University School of Law
- Luwam Dirar, Assistant Professor of Law, Western New England School of Law
- Naomi Mezey, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law & Culture, Georgetown Law
- Erin Collins, Professor, University of Richmond School of Law
- Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Professor, Boston University
- Clara Potter, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Tulane Law School
- Aya Gruber, Harold M. Heimbaugh Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
- Sandra Babcock, Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
- Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Professor of Law, University of Chicago
- Darrell D. Jackson, Winston Howard Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law
- Lindsay M. Harris, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law
- Jeremiah Chin, Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
- Alina Ball, Professor of Law, UC College of the Law, San Francisco
- Michael Boucai, Professor of Law, SUNY at Buffalo School of Law
- Rachel Godsil, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
- Danya Reda, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Massachusetts School of Law
- Alexis Karteron, Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law
- Jamelia Morgan, Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Enid Trucios-Haynes, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Human Rights Advocacy Program, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville
- Saira Mohamed, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
- Cynthia Godsoe, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Ann E. Tweedy, Professor, University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law
- Rabea Benhalim, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
- Richard Thompson Ford, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
- Jonathan Feingold, Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
- Alveena Shah, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
- Julian Hill, Assistant Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
- Vinay Harpalani, Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
- David C. Bloomfield, Professor of Education Leadership, Law & Policy, Brooklyn College & The CUNY Graduate Center
- Salome Viljoen, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan
- Pilar Margarita Hernandez Escontrias, Assistant Professor, Seattle University School of Law
- Tyler Rose Clemons, Acting Assistant Professor, NYU School of Law
- Miyoko Pettit-Toledo, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law
- Olympia Duhart, Professor of Law, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
- Kate Skolnick, Acting Assistant Professor, New York University School of Law
- Eleanor Lumsden, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University
- James Gray Pope, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, Rutgers Law School
- Craig Futterman, Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
- Maritza Reyes, Professor of Law Affiliate, Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies
- Lauren Gilbert, Professor of Law, St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law
- Holly S. Cooper, Co-Director Immigration Law Clinic, UC Davis School of Law
- Deborah A. Jackson, Managing Director, Center for Law, Equity and Race, Northeastern University School of Law
- Jyoti Nanda, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University
- Lauren Gilbert, Professor of Law, St. Thomas University Benjamin L Crump College of Law
- Brant T. Lee, Professor of Law and Assistant Dean for Diversity and Social Justice Initiatives, University of Akron School of Law
- Mark A. Graber, Regents Professor, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
- Addie Rolnick, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
- Lynn Mather, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, University at Buffalo School of Law
- Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Provost Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
- Jessie Allen, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
- Mia Montoya Hammersley, Assistant Professor of Law and Environmental Justice Clinic Director, Vermont Law & Graduate School
- Charlton C. Copeland, Professor of Law, University of Miami Law School
- Marguerite Butler, Assoc. Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
- Mae C. Quinn, Professor of Law + Visiting Professor, Penn State Dickinson + University of Iowa
- Peter M. Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law Emeritus, Ohio State University
- Juliet Stumpf, Edmund O. Belsheim Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School
- Anne Coughlin, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
- Kelly K. Gillespie, Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
- Bela August Walker, Adjunct Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School (Newark)
- James Wilets, Professor of Law; Associate Dean, Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law
- Judith A.M. Scully, Professor of Law, Stetson Law School
- John H. Blume, Samuel F. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques, Cornell Law School
- Alexi Freeman, Assoc. Dean of DEI; Professor of the Practice, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
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[5] Shelton v. Tucker, 364 U.S. 479, 487 (1960).
[6] The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, About Us, https://www.thefire.org/about-us (last visited Apr. 5, 2024) (self-identifying as a “leading defender of fundamental rights on college campuses”).
[8] Keyishian v. Board of Regents, 385 U.S. 589, 603 (1967). See also Sweezy v. New Hampshire, 354 U.S. 234, 250 (1957) (“Scholarship cannot flourish in an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust. Teachers and students must always remain free to inquire, to study and to evaluate, to gain new maturity and understanding; otherwise, our civilization will stagnate and die.”).
[12] Todd Wolfson & Bryan Sacks, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Letter to Senator Graham and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Feb. 20, 2024), at 1.
[13] Id. at 2. See also Punishing Atrocities and Fair Trials: From Nuremberg to Global Terrorism (featuring Professor Jonathan Hafetz), in Humanizing ‘the Other’ Lecture Series, Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights (Sept. 13, 2023), https://youtu.be/52wrJL8Dioo?si=_GPlx1h073qzJdp4.
[14] Committee on Education and Workforce, Letter to Dr. Holloway, Mr. Best, Dr. Conway, Dr. Cantor, and Dr. Tillis (March 27, 2024).
[18] Sahar Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom (University of California 2021).