Author Profile

Robert Shibley

Robert L. Shibley, FIRE's executive director, is a native of Toledo, Ohio, and a graduate of Duke University and Duke University School of Law. As an undergraduate, he was managing editor of the Duke Review newspaper,

Shibley is a member of the bar in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Florida. As senior vice president, along with traveling to various campuses to speak about First Amendment issues, Robert has represented FIRE publicly on Stossel, Fox and Friends, and Lou Dobbs Tonight, in national and international radio and TV interviews, and in published editorials in the New York Post, Boston Globe, National Review, Providence Journal, Daily Oklahoman, and other newspapers. He also writes columns for The Daily Caller, Forbes.com, and Pajamas Media.

Robert and his wife Araz live in Apex, North Carolina, with their two daughters, Grace and Cecily.

Articles by Robert Shibley

Keeping Free Speech Alive on Campus

Dec 21, 2015 ·

I urge all North Carolinians to make a commitment to preserving individual rights on college campuses. Currently, my organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is working nationally on a campaign to encourage universities to adopt the University of Chicago’s new free speech policy statement. This statement promises “all members of the University community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, and learn,” and recognizes that “it is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive.”