CAMPUS PROTESTS AND THE RULE OF
LAW
SHIRIN SINNAR*
LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS [Vol. 87: 117
I
INTRODUCTION
In its opening months, the Trump administration launched an all-out assault
on American higher education, slashing federal funding for academic research,
ordering the elimination of diversity initiatives, punishing institutions for campus
pro-Palestine protests, and detaining for deportation international students who
had participated in protests.1
On the campaign trail, President Trump had
promised to purge colleges of “anti-American insanity” and save “our once-great
educational institutions from the radical left.”2
In one of its opening salvos, the
administration cut $400 million in funding from Columbia University because it
said the university had not protected students from antisemitic harassment; in
response, Columbia agreed to install new security forces on campus and place its
Middle Eastern studies department under oversight—moves that many in higher
education saw as unprecedented capitulations on matters of academic freedom.3
INTRODUCTION
In its opening months, the Trump administration launched an all-out assault
on American higher education, slashing federal funding for academic research,
ordering the elimination of diversity initiatives, punishing institutions for campus
pro-Palestine protests, and detaining for deportation international students who
had participated in protests.1
On the campaign trail, President Trump had
promised to purge colleges of “anti-American insanity” and save “our once-great
educational institutions from the radical left.”2
In one of its opening salvos, the
administration cut $400 million in funding from Columbia University because it
said the university had not protected students from antisemitic harassment; in
response, Columbia agreed to install new security forces on campus and place its
Middle Eastern studies department under oversight—moves that many in higher
education saw as unprecedented capitulations on matters of academic freedom.3
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