Legal Insurrection Foundation

The Legal Insurrection Foundation, sometimes abbreviated LIF, is an American not-for-profit organization founded in 2008 and based in Rhode Island. The foundation is a conservative advocacy organization which focuses on free-speech and academic freedom issues. It has been tax-exempt since March 2018, and as of 2023 its president is William A. Jacobson. The foundation has participated in 2020s controversies around critical race theory and has criticized diversity initiatives which it alleges have discriminated against white people.

Initiatives
The foundation maintains the website Critical Race Training in Education at the domain CriticalRace.org. The website compiles a list of U.S. universities that teach critical race theory and their diversity and inclusion initiatives. The project, which has been featured on Tucker Carlson Tonight, included as of 2021 over 300 colleges and universities in the United States.

In 2022 LIF criticized a 2022 American Bar Association mandate that requires "education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism" from its accredited schools, In 2023 it sent a cease-and-desist letter to Albany Public Library for its two-month privately-funded internship program offered to black-only library school graduates. The library also had several unfilled positions open to any applicant.

Equal Protection Project
In February 2023 the Foundation started the "Equal Protection Project" (EPP), which the Washington Post later described as "a legal organization that opposes race-based affirmative action." The Project accused Missouri State University of discriminating against white males for hosting a privately-funded a boot camp program for minority or women small business owners. The University responded that it would implement changes to the program in the future in response to the allegation. In July 2023, the EPP filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education regarding a whites-only anti-racism seminary offered by New York University. Over a dozen of these complaints were filed in 2023. In 2024, MIT responded to a federal discrimination complaint filed by EPP regarding a program run by MIT's “Office of Minority Education” exclusively for women of color by altering its website the following day. The following month, following an EPP complaint, the Ithaca City School District apologized for organizing a "students of color"-only event.