The First Amendment Clinic, partnering with UGA’s Office of Legal Affairs, hosted a class on June 19, 2020 for UGA faculty and staff focusing on campus free speech issues.
Offered through UGA’s Training & Development (T&D) Center and open to any UGA employee, the class explored the legal frameworks governing speech and expression rights for students, employees and visitors. Topic areas included forum analysis, time/place/manner restrictions, hate speech, public employee doctrine, academic freedom and heckler’s veto. The class will be offered once a semester going forward. UGA employees may register for this and other T&D classes each training quarter through the Professional Education Portal (PEP).
The Issue
The First Amendment protects the right of private individuals to engage in speech and expression without being censored or punished by the government because of their viewpoint. While the government may constitutionally regulate the time, place, and manner of private speech in public forums it must do so in a viewpoint-neutral manner and, depending on…
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The Issue
The First Amendment protects students and student journalists from censorship and retaliation in public schools and universities. As the Supreme Court has explained, students do not “shed their constitutional right to freedom of speech at the schoolhouse gate.” Read more about our work on behalf of students and student journalists here.
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