Robert Shibley
One of ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s longest-serving employees, Robert Shibley began at FIREstraight out of Duke Law School in 2003, with the intention of doing nonprofit work for a couple of years before finding a permanent job. This lasted 19 years, including six as ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s executive director. During his time at ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½, Robert launched ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s first major litigation initiative, traveled to dozens of campuses to speak about the First Amendment and Title IX issues on campus, and oversaw ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s expansion into off-campus issues before a stint representing students and faculty members in private practice at the firm of Allen Harris PLLC.
Having realized things on campus were even worse than he had believed, Robert returned to FIREas Special Counsel for Campus Advocacy in order to finish the job he started: restoring free speech and due process to America’s college campuses. Robert is the author of , from Encounter Books. His writing has appeared everywhere from The Wall Street Journal to The Washington Post, USA Today, and TIME, and he has appeared on national and international broadcasts including the BBC and NPR, The O’Reilly Factor, CNN Tonight, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and (perhaps most famously) Dr. Phil.
Recent Writings
- Govs. DeSantis, Hochul threaten academic freedom with political interference,
- Analysis: Harvard’s settlement adopting IHRA anti-Semitism definition a prescription to chill campus speech,
- Columbia needs to stop doing politics and start doing higher education,
- Penn State stifles student newspaper, prohibits voter registration in brazen display of rights abuses before general election,
- The AAUP continues to back away from academic freedom,
- Walz/Vance VP debate another reminder it’s time to extinguish the ‘fire in a crowded theater’ trope,
- How academic boycotts threaten academic freedom,
- New Title IX regs are a confusing mess that threaten student rights,
- Fed investigation of Lafayette College over Israel-Hamas protests highlights new threat to free speech,
- Fellowship of Christian Athletes scores big Ninth Circuit win for religious liberty and freedom of association,
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