Professor at UC Davis Law School, where I teach con law & civil procedure and write about academic freedom & aesthetics. Author of The Opinionated University (U Chicago Press 2026) and Permitting Art (Cabinet).
https://law.ucdavis.edu/people/brian-soucek
Brian Soucek
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Excellent opinion essay by @brsoucek.bsky.social taking that Yale committee "on trust in higher education" report to task. In particular, he rightly criticizes the committee for assuming, without much thought, that every university has to be like Yale.
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Much like @fishkin.bsky.social’s earlier testimony about the UCLA encampments this is an important and comprehensive account of another speech controversy that will ling be put to harmful (mis)use
My colleague Dave Marcus sets the record straight on the event at UCLA Law last week that @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy falsely referred to as “campus chaos.” I hope those using the false narrative in their campaign against universities pause to consider a true account:
www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...
This is a fantastic letter.
Come join us, Philly friends!
The gall of telling trans kids, after Skrmetti, that characterizing something as "treatment" doesn't affect constitutional protections...
Some frantic energy at Newark Airport this morning but the Touchless Precheck line was shorter than Starbucks’ (~4 min)
100%. I sat in the front of the Dress Circle on Wednesday and heard the same thing: namely, not much singing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...
Such great questions and helpful comments from the @setonhalllaw.bsky.social faculty today. I’m really grateful to them for having me. Thanks @dorfmandoron.bsky.social!
Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.
The Ivy League university has mistaken itself for all of higher education.
