(Belatedly) caught up with the news that Sussex had been fined by the regulator for requiring its staff to not use classrooms as platforms for transphobia. I've written why this conflation of freedom of speech and academic freedom, in UK law, is dangerous and wrong: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The relationship between academic freedom and freedom of speech features prominently in public and political discussions concerning the role of universities in Western liberal democracies. Recently, t...
