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Academic freedom at American universities : constitutional rights, professional norms, and contractual duties /

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 concepti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Philip, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The crisis of academic freedom in the modern university and the founding of the AAUP
  • The AAUP's first policy declaration in 1915 and its early struggle to defend academic freedom
  • The AAUP's seminal 1940 statement and judicially defined academic freedom during the McCarthy era
  • Modern constitutional conceptions of academic freedom
  • The limitations of constitutionally based professorial freedom
  • Contract law as an alternative foundation for professorial freedom
  • Conclusion.