For further reading on free speech and expression, here are some related texts that helped inform the Cornell Committee on Expressive Activity’s development of the final Expressive Activity Policy, with consideration of campus stakeholder input:

• Becker, C. L. (1980). Freedom and responsibility in the American way of life: Five lectures delivered on the William W. Cook Foundation at the University of Michigan, December 1944. Greenwood Press.
• Chemerinsky, E., & Gillman, H. (2017). Free Speech on Campus. Yale University Press.
• Daniels, R. J., Shreve, G., & Spector, P. (2021). What universities owe democracy. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Strossen, Nadine. (2023). Free Speech: What everyone needs to know. Oxford University Press, USA.
• Sunstein, C. R. (2024). Campus Free Speech. Harvard University Press.
• Waldron, Jeremy. (2012). The harm in hate speech. Harvard University Press.
• Blog posts from Michael C. Dorf, the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School:
  • Advice to Campus Administrators: Don’t Call it an “Expressive Activities Policy” (2024) Justia.com; Verdict.
  • A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia (2025) The New York Review.
  • Does Title VI Require Private Universities to Restrict Student Speech? (2024) Dorf on Law.