Academic Freedom is a core principle and value of higher education in the United States and other countries. It embodies important rights and responsibilities, and it can be threatened or infringed in various ways, such as due to political or institutional pressures. In addition, focus on academic freedom can become subsumed or entangled with challenging issues of free speech on campus. This panel will address rights and responsibilities of academic freedom, how it interplays with freedom of speech, and the impact of academic freedom for law faculty, staff, and students.
