Concept information
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legal specialisms
education law
higher education law
cases in higher education law: religion and freedom of speech
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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Widmar v. Vincent
Definition
- Widmar v. Vincent (1981) was the first Supreme Court decision to grant free speech protection to religious expression at an educational institution. In Widmar, the Court recognized that the Free Speech Clause provided a new and powerful counterweight to the Establishment Clause, requiring analysis of speech content. [Source: Encyclopedia of Education Law; Widmar v. Vincent]
Belongs to group
Date
- 1981
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Widmar_v._Vincent
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