Questions of academic freedom--from hate speech to the tenure structure--continue to be of great urgency and perennial debate in American higher education. Originally published as a special issue of "Law and Contemporary Problems" (Summer 1990), this volume draws together leading scholars of law, philosophy, and higher education to offer a fresh assessment of the founding principles of academic freedom and to define this crucial topic for the 1990s.
The original 1940 "Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure," which has been influential in determining institutional...