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Lee argues that the dominant constitutional analysis of academic freedom is insufficient to protect the full range of academic freedom interests that have emerged over time. As an alternative to an exclusively First Amendment foundation for this freedom, it proposes for a contract-law-based conception specifically for professors.
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Introduction
Chapter 1: The Crisis of Academic Freedom in the Modern University and the Founding of the AAUP
Chapter 2: The AAUP's First Policy Declaration in 1915 and its Early Struggle to Defend Academic Freedom
Chapter 3: The AAUP's Seminal 1940 Statement and Judicially Defined Academic Freedom During the McCarthy Era
Chapter 4: Modern Constitutional Conceptions of Academic Freedom
Chapter 5: The Limitations of Constitutionally Based Professorial Freedom
Chapter 6: Contract Law as an Alternative Foundation for Professorial Freedom
Conclusion
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By Philip Lee
Summary
Lee argues that the dominant constitutional analysis of academic freedom is insufficient to protect the full range of academic freedom interests that have emerged over time. As an alternative to an exclusively First Amendment foundation for this freedom, it proposes for a contract-law-based conception specifically for professors.
