Restrictions on conduct by university researchers

[Volokh, Eugene]

	I'm sympathetic to the argument that, in order to speak, people
(and especially scholars) have to be able to gather information, and
that the right to gather such information must therefore be indirectly
constitutionally protected.

	The trouble -- and, I think, the reason that the Court has
generally rejected this argument -- is that any such right would
potentially be very broad, far broader than free speech itself.  Nearly
any activity might sometimes be conducted in order to gather
information.  If you're studying the effects of drugs, it would be
helpful to be able to use drugs.  If you're studying the effects of
racial diversity and homogeneity in organizations, it would be h