Do professors at public universities have free speech rights? Nick Cordova, law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, examines this question in the first video for the Federalist Society’s new series, Briefly: The FedSoc Review.

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Learn more about Nick Cordova:
Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/nick-cordova

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Related Links & Differing Views:

The Federalist Society Review
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/publications?category=federalist-society-review

Nick Cordova, “An Academic Freedom Exception to Government Control of Employee Speech”
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/publications/an-academic-freedom-exception-to-government-control-of-employee-speech

Mark Strasser, “Pickering, Garcetti, & Academic Freedom”
https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/blr/vol83/iss2/13/

Aaron Worthen, “Think of the Children: How the Role of Students in the Classroom Informs Future Applications of Garcetti v. Ceballos in Academic Contexts”
https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/lawreview/vol2014/iss4/7/

Carol N. Tran, Comment, “Recognizing an Academic Freedom Exception to the Garcetti Limitation on the First Amendment Right to Free Speech”
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/akronlawreview/vol45/iss4/7/