Claudia Haupt

Within the confines of a professional doctor-patient relationship, the doctor’s free speech is essentially limited to make sure the patient gets good advice, Haupt, a professor of law and politics at Northeastern University, tells TODAY.com.

It’s a situation that media law expert Claudia Haupt refers to as “the Dr. Oz paradox. Within the confines of a professional doctor-patient relationship, the doctor’s free speech is essentially limited to make sure the patient gets good advice, Haupt, a professor of law and politics at Northeastern University, tells TODAY.com.

While some questioned the ban on the grounds of violating his First Amendment rights to free speech, Claudia Haupt, Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at Northeastern University said that is not the case. Haupt said the president’s rights would only have been violated if the state had limited his expression. “Now what we […]

Claudia Haupt, an associate professor of law and political science at Northeastern University, put it succinctly: “Lies are protected in public discourse.”

“The core of the First Amendment really is protecting political speech,” said Claudia Haupt, an associate professor of law and political science at Northeastern University.