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Legal Memorandum from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus

This memorandum from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus describes why banning guns from classrooms should be permissible under the Texas “campus carry” law SB 11.  It also provides a legal basis for including faculty governing bodies such as the UT Faculty Council in all deliberations.  Use of a special task force is not a substitute for the normal university governance procedures because implementation of the law should be considered an academic matter.  

UT-Austin Memo Revised – Final