A decade ago, the Supreme Court was almost ready to confer First Amendment protection on the "Internet" believing that it was sufficiently benign. Little did everyone anticipate how different that rosy view might seem today. Several troubling developments have occurred within the past months. Megan Meier, a 13-year-old in Missouri, was apparently…

Free speech in American higher education was sorely tested by three bizarre events in the waning days of September and another incident in early October. Each one has potentially grave implications for free expression and academic freedom, and thus merits closer scrutiny. The first event was the extension, then withdrawal and eventual…

A university president urges development of a doctrine of "academic deference" to protect academic freedom and discourages overuse of constitutional litigation in higher education-related disputes. Academic deference is encouraged in censorship of former government employees returning to academe, restrictions on international scholarly…

A preliminary overview of the constitutional issues in the relationship between higher education and federal regulation or control is offered. Reference is made to the Dartmouth College case and the views of Yale President Kingman Brewster, and to implications of Title IX regulations. (LBH)

The legal tests that are applied to the issue of state mandates to provide creation instruction in public schools, and the implications of the mandates, are discussed. This issue is compared with other curriculum mandates and requirements to illustrate the difficulty of the problem. (MSE)

The Bakke case concerning preferential college admissions and the DeFunis case testing the constitutionality of a minority admissions program are reexamined and contrasted for insights into minority-preference and race-conscious remedy issues. (MSE)

The momentum which pushed law-related education during the past two decades needs revitalization. Curriculum development ventures that involve university professors of the social sciences and secondary school teachers are in order. Recent reports on the subject and course content are discussed. (PP)