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Title Freedom and tenure in the academy / William W. Van Alstyne, editor
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 1993
©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 429 pages)
Series HeinOnline legal classics library
Legal classics library
Contents Introduction / William W. Van Alstyne -- The 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure / Walter P. Metzger -- Academic freedom and First Amendment in the Supreme Court of the United States: an unhurried historical review / William W. Van Alstyne -- Ideology and faculty selection / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Artistic freedom and academic freedom / Robert M. O'Neil -- Academic freedom, hate speech, and the idea of a university / Rodney A. Smolla -- A functional analysis of "individual" and "institutional" academic freedom under the First Amendment / David M. Rabban -- Academic freedom in religious colleges and universities / Michael M. McConnell -- Academic tenure and academic freedom / Ralph S. Brown and Jordan E. Kurland -- "A higher order of liberty in the workplace": academic freedom and tenure in the vortex of employment practices of the law / Matthew W. Finkin
Academic freedom : a bibliography / Janet Sinder -- Academic freedom and church-related higher education: a reply to Professor McConnell / Judith Jarvis Thomson and Matthew W. Finkin
Summary Questions of academic freedom - from hate speech to the tenure structure - continue to be of great urgency and perennial debate in American higher education. Originally published as a special issue of Law and Contemporary Problems (Summer 1990), this volume draws together leading scholars of law, philosophy, and higher education to offer a first assessment of the founding principles of academic freedom and to define the topic for the 1990s. The original 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, which has been influential in determining institutional practices for the last half century, has required continual redefinition since its initial declaration. Walter P. Metzger begins this collection with the most complete examination of the 1940 Statement ever provided, shedding light on some of its most troublesome clauses. Following this overview, William W. Van Alstyne presents an "unhurried" historical review of the extent to which academic freedom has been accepted into domestic constitutional law. Two essays deal with the issue of tenure and academic freedom. Ralph S. Brown and Jordan E. Kurland agree that tenure reinforces academic freedom but wonder if there is not a large price to be paid for such a system. In a highly instructive review Matthew Finkin looks at academic tenure and freedom in the light of labor law. Focusing on freedom of artistic expression, Robert O'Neil raises difficult questions about what kinds of art displays taxpayers can be expected to tolerate in the colleges and universities they support. Rodney A. Smolla looks at the ways in which "hate" speech and offensive expression on campuses engage wide First Amendment jurisprudence. Judith Jarvis Thomson examines the vexed issue of selecting - and valuing - individual faculty members or disciplines with regard to ideology. Michael W. McConnell offers a spirited defense of the value of allowing religiously committed colleges and universities to pursue their own course in a secular age. New to this edition, Thomson and Finkin offer an equally spirited response to McConnell. Returning to larger questions, David M. Rabban discusses the clash between institutional and individual claims of academic freedom. Also included are reprints of the full texts of the 1915 and 1940 statements, as well as all extensive bibliography. Freedom and Tenure in the Academy is sure to be an essential volume for all those - lawyers, scholars, and administrators of higher education alike - concerned with the difficult issues of academic freedom facing the world of higher education
Analysis Higher education Academic freedom Law
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed February 8, 2018)
Subject Academic freedom -- United States
Freedom of speech -- United States
Teachers -- Tenure -- United States
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Academic freedom
Freedom of speech
Teachers -- Tenure
Vrijheid van onderzoek.
Hoger onderwijs.
Benoemingsbeleid.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Van Alstyne, William W., editor.
ISBN 9780822396802
0822396807