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Forum on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech: What Does it Mean for the Hunter Community?
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series
Forum on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech: What Does it Mean for the Hunter Community?
The panel discussion will cover two important and distinct subjects of interest to the Hunter community. The session will begin with a discussion of the purposes, source of rights, and contours of academic freedom for faculty and other academic employees. It will continue with an examination of the scope of the First Amendment and statutory protections for speech, association, and assembly by staff, faculty, administrators and students. During the discussion, the panelists will address the application of those principles to the current controversies surrounding campus protests. The session will conclude with a period for questions and answers.
Speaker: Risa Lieberwitz, PhD
Prof. Lieberwitz is a professor of Labor and Employment Law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Academic Director in the Worker Institute at Cornell, and a Co-Director of the Cornell University Law and Society minor.
Speaker: Frederick (Rick) Schaffer
Mr. Shaffer is the former General Counsel and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs at the City University of New York.
Click here to read A Guide to Academic Freedom by Frederick Schaffer.
An associate professor of law at Emory University and author of The Battle for Sabarimala Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press) and The War on Tenure (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025).
Moderator: William Herbert
Mr. Herbert is a Distinguished Lecturer and Executive Director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions Hunter College.
