Academic Freedom in the United States: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right

Please join us for a talk by lawyer and legal scholar Prof. David M. Rabban on the meaning and importance of academic freedom and its relationship to freedom of expression in the United States. This talk will be based on Rabban's newly published work Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right (2024). Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University and author of Safe Enough Spaces, has called this text “[t]he best kind of scholarship―deeply researched and immensely useful. Wherever you stand on issues of free speech and academic freedom, you will learn from this book.” Political scientist and Open Society University Network Threatened Scholar Integration Initiative Manager Dr. Aysuda Kölemen will serve as respondent to Prof. Rabban before we open to Q&A. The event will be moderated by Associate Dean of the College Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom.

Professor David M. Rabban is the Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas. Professor Rabban served as counsel to the American Association of University Professors for several years before joining the Texas faculty in 1983. He later served as its general counsel and as chair of its committee on academic freedom and tenure. His teaching and research focus on free speech, academic freedom, higher education and the law, and American legal history. He was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2016 and of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University in 2016-17. His most recent book is Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right.

In cooperation with the OSUN Threatened Scholar Integration Initiative.

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For more information, e-mail [email protected].

Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: W15 Cafe (Waldstraße 15, 13156 Berlin)

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