Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier [SCOTUSbrief]
Short video featuring Nadine Strossen
When school principal Robert Reynolds censored two articles from the student newspaper at Hazelwood East High School, three journalism students brought a lawsuit under the First Amendment.
Under what circumstances can schools limit student speech? Prof. Nadine Strossen of New York Law School discusses limited public forums, school-sponsored speech, and editorial control in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier.
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Learn more about Nadine Strossen:
https://www.nyls.edu/faculty/nadine-strossen/
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Related Links & Differing Views:
Student Press Law Center: “25 years later, a look at one generation under Hazelwood”
https://splc.org/2013/01/25-years-lat...
Fordham Urban Law Journal: “Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier and the University”
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/vie...
Maine Law Review: “The State Response to Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier”
https://digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine...
Duke Law Journal: “Comments: Hazelwood School District and the Role of First Amendment Institutions”
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/...
Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development: “Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier: Has the Schoolhouse Gate Shut on the Marketplace of Ideas?”
https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/c...
West Virginia Law Review: “Hazelwood East School District v. Kuhlmeier: The Death of No Prior Restraint in an Official High School Newspaper”
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/cg...
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita, New York Law School; Former President, American Civil Liberties Union
Nadine Strossen, New York Law School Professor Emerita and Senior Fellow at FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), was national President of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008. An internationally acclaimed free speech scholar and advocate, who regularly addresses diverse audiences and provides media commentary around the world, Strossen is also the Host and Project Consultant for Free To Speak, a 3-hour documentary film series distributed on public television in 2023. Her books about free speech include: Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know® (Oxford University Press 2023); HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (Oxford University Press 2018); and Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights (Scribner 1995), which was republished with a new Preface in 2024 as part of the NYU Classics Series. Her many honors and awards include the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Judy Blume Lifetime Achievement Award for Free Speech. She serves on the Advisory Boards of several organizations that do free speech work, including: ACLU, Academic Freedom Alliance, Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR), Heterodox Academy, National Coalition Against Censorship, and the University of Austin.