Masked, unlawful encampments on university campuses cannot claim the moral authority of civil disobedience

Broad domain encompassing the study of human communities, social structures, institutions, and collective behaviours, including how people organise, govern, and relate to one another across cultures and time periods

Policies and political debates shaping American schools and higher education, from funding formulas and curriculum fights to student rights, admissions and the federal role. Runs across three levels of government, with most authority resting with states and local districts rather than Washington.

Individual freedoms that constrain what the state may do, including speech, assembly, religion, privacy and protection from arbitrary search or detention. Distinct from civil rights, which concern equal treatment, these limit government power rather than extend entitlement, and are usually enforced through the courts.

Public demonstrations, marches, occupations and strikes through which people press claims on governments or institutions. Covers the policing of assembly, the legal boundaries of the right to gather, and the moments where demonstration and enforcement meet, in the street rather than in a chamber.