In the summer of 2014, professor Steven Salaita became the center of a national controversy when his job offer at the University of Illinois was rescinded as a result of his vicious tweets about ...

Writing in Tablet, Liel Leibovitz concludes that it "should not qualify as scholarship." But at least Salaita is absolutely, definitely, unequivocally not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism.

Steven G. Salaita was promised, then denied, a tenured position in the program in American Indian studies at Urbana-Champaign in 2014. Since then, the program has dwindled, its faculty pulled away ...

[UPDATE: Salaita’s Goodreads site was apparently scrubbed within and hour and half of this post going up. The original links below, working at 10:14, now do not, though I’ve added some cached ...

In 2014, Steven Salaita’s venomous tweets about Israel cost him his tenured faculty appointment at the University of Illinois. Five years later, he is working as a school bus driver in suburban ...

Steven Salaita, a former professor whose revoked job offer in 2014 stirred national controversy, says he now drives a school bus. Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune/MCT via Getty Images ...

Professor Salaita might have a good constitutional claim, or under some other regime of law. And I agree with Steven Lubet that a settlement is the modal outcome.

As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, " Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom," on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday ...

T he negotiated settlement between Steven Salaita and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has brought that sad episode to a close. Salaita, a scholar of indigenous studies, gave up a ...

As Steven Salaita told his Olympia audience, when opponents of the movement for Palestinian liberation must resort to attacks on First Amendment rights and academic freedom, ...

No one following the Steven Salaita case was surprised Thursday when the displaced scholar announced he’s suing top administrators of the University of Illinois System and its Urbana-Champaign campus.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Salaita is due to receive $600,000, and his attorneys will receive $275,000. In addition, the university has apparently spent well over $1 million on legal fees ...