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Academic Freedom for Universities

David W. Leslie

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Academic freedom has been traditionally associated with the individual professor’s right to free expression. Recent legal developments suggest an emerging set of legal theories that may grant certain “academic freedom” rights and privileges to the corporate university. This article reviews the concepts of academic freedom, university autonomy, and the developments which have brought recognition of institutional academic freedom as a distinct legal privilege. The implications for protection of individual rights are discussed.

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Key concepts: Academic freedom, Privilege (computing), Autonomy, Political science, Sociology, Freedom of expression, Set (abstract data type), Higher education