FIRE's Guide to Due Process and Campus Justice

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is proud to present our Guide to Due Process and Campus Justice, an updated edition of our Guide to Due Process and Fair Procedure on Campus, published in 2003.

As a student, you should be aware of your right to due process-and how to assert and defend it. Being well informed about your protections from arbitrary and unfair decisionmaking is crucially important, both during your time at college and in the larger world that awaits you beyond campus.

This newly revised Guide, the latest in our series of Guides to Student Rights on Campus, is intended to provide students with a clear, effective primer on the right to due process. But it is not only for students. Faculty, administrators, parents, alumni, friends, citizens, advisors, and attorneys who care about students' rights should understand the threats to due process on campuses nationwide and the means of combating those threats.

Harvey A. Silverglate, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is a lawyer, journalist, lecturer, and writer who for 47 years has specialized in civil liberties and criminal defense work. He is the co-author, with Alan Charles Kors, of The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses.

Josh Gewolb is an attorney in private practice in Rochester, New York. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School.

William Creeley is Vice President of Legal and Public Advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. A graduate of New York University School of Law, he has co-authored amicus curiae briefs submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third, Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits. He is a member of the New York State Bar and the First Amendment Lawyers Association.