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...funding in the first place, they cannot complain of whatever deal the federal government offers, including a deal requiring universities to give up what the Court would concede were First Amendment rights,” Tribe wrote.And based on this approach, Tribe said, the court could have dismissed the universities?? challenge to the Solomon Amendment “simply by saying that the plaintiffs cannot complain of a federal government offer that they are entirely free simply to turn down.” Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Richard H. Fallon agreed that there...
...make more liberal use of visiting professors and new hires to fill gaps. In particular, student input on course demand should be an important factor in faculty hiring decisions. This is a notable break from the way that faculty hiring generally takes place at Harvard and other research universities??traditionally, prospective faculty have been evaluated on the merits of their research alone. But if one believes, as we do, that Harvard ought to use teaching ability as a consideration in faculty hires, it only makes sense for Harvard to also consider what courses prospective faculty might teach...
...Massachusetts State Senate is slated to vote next Wednesday on public records legislation that could radically alter private universities?? and their police forces’ exemption from releasing internal, crime-related documents. Senate Bill 1735 would force private universities and hospitals to release confidential documents obtained by special state police officers to the public, according to the bill. Special state police officers, like those of Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), are not public officers but do have the power to make arrests and obtain and exercise search warrants. If passed through the Senate, the House and into...
...members of the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. The other signers included former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan, a former HLS professor who has often collaborated with Tribe, and Walter E. Dellinger, a Duke professor who authored the friend of the court brief signed by 40 HLS professors supporting universities?? right to bar military recruiters from campus. Tribe, in a separate but similar letter sent three days earlier to the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., D-Mich., denounced the domestic spying program in even more forceful terms. “The presidential...
Many United States universities??including Harvard—are protesting governmental regulations, proposed earlier this year, that would segregate foreign students and researchers working in certain laboratories and require them to wear badges and gain special approval to work with a variety of equipment...