Police Detain Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators At UC Irvine Encampment Pro-Palestinian demonstrators detained at UC Irvine after setting up encampment demanding divestment from Israel. Negotiations ongoing. Top News · May 16, 2024
UC Irvine Continues Negotiations With Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters UC Irvine Chancellor Gillman negotiates with pro-Palestinian groups on divestment issues, addressing concerns over academic freedom and discrimination. Top News · May 4, 2024
From Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley Law) and Chancellor Howard Gillman (UC Irvine) on Free Speech on Campus Chemerinsky and Gillman are the co-authors of Free Speech on Campus, and have long defended free speech and academic freedom. (For another recent item from the two of them, see here ["Free speech doesn't mean hecklers get to shut down campus debate"].) I don't always agree with them on such… Reason · Dec 13, 2023
More on the Students' Disruption of the Yale Law School Event For my earlier post on the incident, see here; three follow-ups: [1.] Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley Law)—one of the most prominent liberal constitutional law scholars in the country—and Chancellor Howard Gillman (UC Irvine) had a Washington Post op-ed, "Free speech doesn't mean hecklers get to shut down campus debate"; an… Reason · Mar 25, 2022