Academic Freedom - From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right

Informationen zum Autor David M. Rabban is Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. The author of Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years, he was General Counsel of the American Association of University Professors and chaired its Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Klappentext David Rabban provides the first comprehensive synthesis of the case law on academic freedom and the First Amendment at American universities. Responding to the judicial decisions and drawing on the justification for academic freedom as a professional norm, he develops a theory of academic freedom as a distinctive First Amendment right. Zusammenfassung David Rabban provides the first comprehensive synthesis of the case law on academic freedom and the First Amendment at American universities. Responding to the judicial decisions and drawing on the justification for academic freedom as a professional norm, he develops a theory of academic freedom as a distinctive First Amendment right.

Product details

• Authors: David M. Rabban, Rabban David M.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9780674291058
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29105-8
• No. of pages: 380
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Constitutional, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Educational Law & Legislation, Educational strategies & policy, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Educational strategies and policy, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law, Education law, Education & the law