Selected publications. Click on the title for a link to the piece. See my CV for a complete list of publications.
Hutchens, N. H., & Fernandez, F. (2023, March 19). Academic freedom policies should mean something: Florida’s universities can’t have it both ways. Inside Higher Ed.
Miller, V., & Fernandez, F., Hutchens, N. H. (2023). The race to ban race: Legal and critical arguments against state legislation to ban Critical Race Theory in higher education. Missouri Law Review, 88(1), 61-106.
Hutchens, N. H., & Miller, V. (2023). Florida’s Stop Woke Act: A wake-up call for academic freedom. Journal of College and University Law, 48(1), 35-69.
Fernandez, F., & Hutchens, N. H. (2022, October 4). Florida: State rights over individual rights. Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
Hutchens, N. H., Fernandez, F., & Edmondson, M. (2021). Toward a consumer protection framework to protect students from predatory practices: A legal analysis of judicial opinions, state laws, and regulations. Report prepared for State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.
Hutchens, N. H, Fernandez, F. & Edmondson, M. (2021, October 18). Predatory for-profit colleges must be stopped. States should help make that happen.The Hechinger Report.
Hutchens, N. H. (2019, April 9). Campus speech laws being enacted in many states, but some may do more harm than good. The Conversation.
Hutchens, N. H., & Fernandez, F. (2018). Searching for balance with student free speech: Campus speech zones, institutional authority, and legislative prerogatives. Belmont Law Review, 5, 103-128.
Hutchens, N. H. (2017, August 9). Trump’s justice department would better serve students by focusing on legitimate threats to students’ rights. The Hechinger Report.
Jones, W. A., Hutchens, N. H., *Hulbert, A., Lewis, W. D., & *Brown, D. (2017). Shared governance among the new majority: Non-tenure track faculty eligibility for election to university faculty senates. Innovative Higher Education, 42, 505-519. doi: 10.1007/s10755-017-9402-2
Hutchens, N. H., *Fernandez, F., & *Hulbert, A. (2016). Essay: Faculty, the courts, and the First Amendment. Penn State Law Review, 120(4), 1027-1046.
Hutchens, N. H., & Hephner LaBanc, B. (2017, May 7). Can we talk about free speech on campus?. The Conversation.
Hutchens, N. H., & Melear, K. B. (2017, August 17). More states are allowing guns on college campuses. The Conversation.
Hutchens, N. H., & Fossey, R. (2016). Why it’s so hard for students to have their debts forgiven?. The Conversation.
Hutchens, N. H. (2015, March 25). Gagged in Kansas? Bill would deny free speech to public-college employees. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Hutchens, N. H, Sun, J. C., & Miksch, K. (2014, January 10). Open-records requests and academic freedom. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Sun, J. C., Hutchens, N. H, & *Breslin, J. (2013). A (virtual) land of confusion with college students’ online speech: Introducing the curricular nexus test. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 16(1), 49-96.