Paper Summary—Free Speech on Campus: Countering a Climate of Fear
Heterodox STEM | Dorian Abbot
University of Chicago’s Dorian Abbot summarizes an “extremely insightful and important” paper by Georgetown University’s John Hasnas that proposes adding “safe harbor” provisions to academic freedom and a pro bono legal group to litigate issues.
“If his [Hasnas’] system were implemented, the academic freedom situation would dramatically improve… [however, the issue] is getting universities to adopt the safe harbor provisions… This seems extremely unlikely in the current climate, where even abstract statements of support for academic freedom are being attacked and replaced with self-contradictory schemes like ‘inclusive’ academic freedom that explicitly exclude those whose speech most needs protection.”
