An Emory University law professor banished from campus since 2018 for his use of a racial epithet that sparked student protests is back at work after Emory’s law school dean accepted a faculty hearing committee recommendation to lift his suspension.

Law school Dean Mary Anne Bobinski reinstated longtime law professor Paul Zwier to his tenured post but warned in a March 4 letter to the law school community that, while the use of particular controversial words aren’t banned on campus, there are limits to academic protections.

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