
Bolstering Free Speech at Yale
Woodward Report
In 1974, Yale published the Woodward Report, a document that established Yale’s free speech principles for the first time in the university’s history.
Read the context around the creation of the report and sign a petition calling on Yale to recommit to the free speech principles of the Woodward Report

Articles
Libby Snowden – FIRE, 7/28/22
Neither lux nor veritas: Yale pairs speech-protective policies with a culture of intolerance
Stanley Kurtz – National Review, 3/23/22
How to Discipline the Yale Law School Shout-Down
Jordan Howell – FIRE, 10/7/21
Court filing: Yale’s lawyers make surprising claims about the school’s academic freedom promises
Lily Rogers – FIRE, 8/10/18
What ever happened to the Woodward Report?
José Cabranes – Yale Law and Policy Review, 1/13/17
For Freedom of Expression, For Due Process, and For Yale: The Emerging Threat to Academic Freedom at a Great University
Steven Benner (student Woodward Report signatory) – Yale Daily News, 12/3/15
BENNER: The Woodward Report today
President Peter Salovey – The Freshman Address, 8/22/14
Free Speech at Yale
Videos
June 2023 – Faculty Political Diversity at Yale and Beyond
November 2022 – Is Free Speech Dead on Campus?
December 2021 – Can Alumni and Trustees Rescue the American University?
October 2021 – What is Happening to Free Speech at Yale Law School?