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Origins of Academic Freedom Litigation
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 1986
- pp. 47-61
- 10.1353/rhe.1986.0011
- Article
- Additional Information
Institutional differentiation and political conceptualizations of organizational processes framed this investigation of factors influencing faculty reliance on litigation to resolve disputes involving academic freedom. This study of selected court cases suggests that such litigation is more likely to originate from public multiversities and comprehensives and among faculty in the humanities and social sciences, implying that academic units with greater organizational ambiguity are most likely to generate litigation related to academic freedom.