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University of Edinburgh Academics for Academic Freedom

University of Edinburgh Academics for Academic Freedom

  1. University of Edinburgh Academics for Academic Freedom
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  3. July

Month: July 2024

Academic freedom is an individual right

In this blog Jim Butcher discusses whether academic freedom in an institutional or an individual freedom.  We think it makes an important point about the shifting terms of the debate over academic freedom.  It originally appeared at the Cieo website (full credits at the end) and was previously reproduced at the AFAF website: https://www.afaf.org.uk/academic-freedom-in-an-individual-right/.  We […]

8th July 2024 0

What can faculty say publicly about their own universities?

Lawrence D Bobo, Dean of social science At Harvard has rightly drawn criticism after an op-ed in The Harvard Crimson entitled ‘Faculty Speech Must Have Limits’. The title is uncontroversial: anyone’s freedom of speech is limited by laws on defamation, obscenity or public order. But Bobo had other constraints in mind: Is it outside the […]

4th July 2024 0

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