Judge José Cabranes: Threats to Academic Freedom Are a ‘National Problem’
By Samantha Harris January 12, 2017
On Tuesday, Judge José Cabranes, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, published a towering defense of academic freedom in the opinions section of The Washington Post.
Judge Cabranes—a highly respected jurist as well as a former trustee of Yale, Columbia, and Colgate universities—has been sounding the alarm about threats to academic freedom for years now. But his latest article could not have come at a more critical time for faculty concerned about academic freedom on campus: Over the past few years, FIRE has seen a dramatic increase in cases involving investigation or punishment of faculty members’ classroom expression, and these threats seem only to be increasing as more universities adopt broad policies under which students are e
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