AAU has joined in endorsing a letter sent by ACE in responding to a U.S. Department of Justice Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking the clarification and modernization of the implementing regulations for the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA). The letter urges DOJ to maintain and strengthen the current statutory exemption for “religious, scholastic, academic and scientific pursuits or of the fine arts.” It also requests the DOJ narrowly define and interpret the definition of “political activities” in the FARA regulations to ensure that legitimate and reasonable scholastic, academic, and scientific pursuits are not at risk of being captured as “political” in nature.