Professors’ free speech rights can clash with public universities’ interest in managing their employees as they choose
- Written by Helen Norton, Rothgerber Chair in Constitutional Law, University of Colorado Boulder
Heavener Hall Archway, one entrance to the University of Florida campus in Gainesville.University of FloridaUniversity of Florida officials in November blocked three professors from offering expert testimony in a lawsuit that challenged recently enacted state voting restrictions. But the university soon reversed course amid a public outcry.
