Publication Date
2025
Publication Title
Public Law & Legal Theory
Abstract
Academic freedom is under threat in many countries, and the United States is no exception. This chapter places the American framework for academic freedom in comparative perspective, and describes the techniques being deployed against it. A common threat is to leverage the use of government funds as a way to change internal university governance. Less common, however, is something that we have seen in the United States, which is a threat to academic freedom from civil society itself. The trend is accelerating through social media, and is structurally similar to that of the fascist period in Europe in which there was a symbiosis between fascist politicians and a mob of followers that squeezed the air out of German academia.
Number
25-53
Recommended Citation
Ginsburg, Tom, "The American Attack on Academic Freedom in Comparative Perspective" (2025). Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers. 25-53.
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/public_law_and_legal_theory/972
