2025 Rekindled Commitments to Academic Freedom Nationwide
The prospect of not having what we have long taken for granted has rallied the troops, offered academics and judges an occasion to articulate academic freedom’s value in new ways,…
There’s an Intensifying Kind of Threat to Academic Freedom – Watchful Students Serving As Informants
Restricting academic freedom is often thought of in terms of universities telling professors what they can and cannot do or teach. But that isn’t the only scenario.
Prisoners Donating Organs to Get Time Off Raises Thorny Ethical Questions
By Austin Sarat / The Conversation In January 2023 two Democratic representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill that would offer prisoners in Massachusetts a new way to…