Versions of Academic Freedom
From Professionalism to Revolution
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Preface
1. Academic Freedom Studies
The Five Schools
2. The “It’s Just a Job” School
Professionalism, Pure and Simple
3. The “For the Common Good” School
Academic Freedom, Shared Governance, and Democracy
4. Professionalism vs. Critique
The Post-Butler Debates
5. Academic Exceptionalism and Public Employee Law
6. Virtue before Professionalism
The Road to Revolution
Coda
Appendix
Academic Freedom, the First Amendment, and Holocaust Denial (a talk given by the author at Rice University, April 2012)
Works Cited
Index
Education: Education--Economics, Law, Politics
Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society
Philosophy: Ethics
Political Science: Judicial Politics
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