Academic Freedom, which houses CLC’s research and advocacy on academic freedom and campus speech, as well as our rapid response/mutual aid work on behalf of targeted faculty and others.
Constitutional Law Project, which advocates and develops materials for teaching constitutional law from a critical perspective.
Critical Education and Pedagogy Project (CritEd), which advocates for and develops a broad range of pedagogical legal materials, with a special focus on antiracist materials.
Democratizing Higher Education Project, which houses CLC’s research, campaign development and overall advocacy in support of more democratic governance structures.
Academic Freedom houses CLC’s research and advocacy on academic freedom and campus speech, as well as our rapid response/mutual aid work on behalf of targeted faculty and others.
- Publication of “The War on Higher Education” by Athena D. Mutua, Jonathan Feingold et al.
- Two faculty cohorts have participated in the AAUP’s trainings in organizing strategies as part of the AAUP’s “Organizing Every Campus” campaign.
- Submitted comments to the American Bar Association’s (ABA) draft proposal for revising Standard 206 on “Diversity and Inclusion;” organized amicus briefs for cases involving DEI and the Dear Colleague Letter for Nat’l Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Ed. v. Trump.
- With AAUP, submitted a report focused on racial justice and free speech in higher education for the UN Universal Periodic Review of the U.S., 50th Session of the Universal Periodic Review, 4th Cycle (Nov. 2025); submitted Apr. 7, 2025.
- With ACLU, prepared a briefing for mission delegates to the UN Human Rights Council 59th session meeting; the meeting included delegates from Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Ireland, Namibia, Malaysia and Palestine, among others.
- Submitted Letter Condemning House Committee Rutgers Investigation – Google Docs
Constitutional Law Project advocates and develops materials for teaching constitutional law from a critical perspective.
- Published “Teaching Constitutional Law in a Time of Retrenchment,” UCLA L.Rev. Disc. 2 (2025). This symposium grew out of the 2024 Con Law workshop at UC, Irvine and is the first of a series of three workshops to produce critical pedagogy materials for constitutional law. A summary of the introductory essay can be found here: Margaret Montoya, “Teaching in a Time of Retrenchment.”
- Continuing work on a constitutional law teaching supplement and Primer.
- Held Constitutional Law Workshop Part II, May 30-31, 2025 at University at Buffalo Law School, sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
Critical Education and Pedagogy Project (CritEd) advocates for and develops a broad range of pedagogical legal materials, with a special focus on antiracist materials.
- Webinar: Resist/Defend/Reimagine Legal Pedagogy: Educating to Withstand Authoritarianism in the Wake of the 2024 Elections.
- CLC Critical Education Committee and community members released and workshopped two Guides for educating against uncritical, regressive pedagogy to meet the unfolding crises.
- Continuing work on the Resist/Defend/Reimagine Pedagogy Guide and teaching materials.
- Organized with AALS Critical Theories Section
- Presented two workshops at the 2025 AALS Conference: (1) Advancing Academic Excellence Through ABA Standards on Academic Freedom, Antiracism, and Diversity, and (2) Critical Thought and Pedagogy for Constitutional Law.
- Co-hosted Reception at AALS with LPE Project, the LPE Collective, and the Race and Private Law Section.
- Planning coordinated sessions for 2026 AALS Annual Conference in collaboration with other sections.
Democratizing Higher Education houses CLC’s research, campaign development and overall advocacy in support of a system of higher education that is more democratically financed and governed. Recent publications include:
- Feingold, Why Academic Freedom Needs DEI – Inside Higher Education.
- Harris, Climate Change: The War on Higher Education Comes for Law Schools, LPE blog.
- McMurtry-Chubb, Monumental Damage: The Lost Cause of the Confederacy – Women’s eNews; The Borders Between Us – VISIBLE Magazine.
- Law professor’s paper details ‘assault’ on higher education – UBNow: News and views for UB faculty and staff – University at Buffalo.