College and university campuses remain one of the only forums in which the rights of students of faith are regularly curtailed. The ease with which students are denied the right to associate freely among themselves, even in matters of conscience and religion, is profoundly disturbing, as is most students’ inability to expose such denials as fundamentally unjust. FIRE’s Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus provides a history of the crusade for religious liberty and explains how the legal and moral arguments for religious liberty apply differentially on public and private campuses. This Guide also answers pertinent questions such as:
What is the modern history and current status of the United States Supreme Court’s view of the "free exercise of religion" and of "freedom of association?" How do these concepts apply to student liberty on my college or university campus?
What arguments on behalf of religious liberty and the rights of conscience pertain to a private or sectarian institution?
What legal and moral arguments may be made against the imposition of double standards by academic administrators in a variety of areas of campus life, including religious freedom?
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"FIRE's Guide will change the balance of power. Students are now armed with accurate information and good counsel." -- Edwin Meese III Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy, Heritage Foundation 75th Attorney General of the United States
"FIRE’s Guide facilitates protection of freedoms that are fundamental for all individuals, whatever their religious beliefs might be." -- Nadine Strossen President, American Civil Liberties Union Professor of Law, New York Law School
"Thank God (or your personal moral equivalent) that FIRE is standing up for freedom of expression on campus..." -- Jamin Raskin Professor of Constitutional Law, American University
About the Author
DAVID A. FRENCH, a graduate of Harvard Law School, is also author of A Season For Justice: Defending the Rights of the Christian Home, Church and School (Broadman & Holman 2002). Mr. French has extensive experience representing religious individuals and groups and serves as Counsel for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s Religious Freedom Crisis Team. Mr. French has taught at Cornell Law School and is a member of the FIRE Legal Network.
Product Details
Paperback: 102 pages
Publisher: Fndtn for Individual Rights in Edu (October 1, 2002)
David French is a Senior Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice. A Kentucky native, David is a 1994 graduate (cum laude) of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a 1991 graduate (summa cum laude, valedictorian) of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.
David has been a commercial litigation partner for a large law firm, taught at Cornell Law School, served as president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), and currently serves as a Senior Counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice.
He is the author of multiple books, including A Season for Justice: Defending the Rights of the Christian Home, Church, and School and the upcoming Home and Away: The Story of Family in a Time of War.
David is a regular contributor to National Review Online, a columnist for Patheos, and he has written numerous op-eds and articles, including pieces in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Human Events, Townhall, New York Post, New York Daily News, Boston Herald, and Philadelphia Daily News. Regularly interviewed by both print and broadcast media, David has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, The O'Reilly Factor, CNN Newsroom, The Fox Report with Shepard Smith, and Special Report with Brit Hume, among others. A regular guest on talk radio programs, David has been interviewed on National Public Radio and by numerous hosts, including Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, James Dobson, and Michael Reagan.
David is also a Captain in the United States Army Reserve, joining the USAR in April, 2006. He completed Phase I of the Judge Advocate Officer Basic Course in June, 2006, and Phase II in April, 2007. He has also completed the Judge Advocate Tactical Staff Officer Course. He is currently a Trial Counsel for the 139th Legal Support Organization, Legal Command, in Nashville, Tennessee. From October 2007 to September 2008 CPT French served as Squadron Judge Advocate for the 2d Squadron, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment in Diyala Province, Iraq, where he was awarded the Bronze Star at the conclusion of his tour.
David and his wife Nancy have two daughters (ages 12 and 3) and a son (age 10). They live in Columbia, Tennessee.
