Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2009
Abstract
This review essay analyzes two recent books that advance neo-orthodox theories of academic freedom: Matthew Finkin and Robert Post, For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom, and Stanley Fish, Save the World on Your Own Time. Both books develop principles articulated in the American Association of University Professors 1915 Declaration, which emphasize the role of faculty in advancing knowledge and the need to insulate professional evaluation of academic work from lay, political interference. This review essay defends the return to protection of the scholarly search for truth as the touchstone of academic freedom, offers critiques of the authors’ specific arguments, and draws implications for the constitutional law of academic freedom.
Publication Citation
88 Texas L. Rev. 143 (2009)
Scholarly Commons Citation
Byrne, J. Peter, "Neo-orthodoxy in Academic Freedom" (2009). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 25.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/25