Litigation

When administrators trample professors’ or students’ rights, litigation often ensues. The same is true when campus practices touch the culture wars, matters of constitutional interpretation, or ongoing political disputes. The following articles look at pending, prospective, and concluded legislation in the higher-ed arena. How are the courts directing what happens in American lecture halls and on the campus and quad?


Anti-Trust in Scientific Journals

Scientific journals emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries as the principal way in which scientists and the public shared scientific ideas and discoveries. Journals met the need for dissemination…



From Retaliation to Reform

You have undoubtedly heard about cases where intolerant administrators target professors who fail one of the ideological litmus tests that increasingly characterize higher education. Such instances have become commonplace, perhaps…







CUNY Faculty Take On Their Union

Collective bargaining through a labor union is supposed to “level the playing field” for workers, enabling them to obtain better terms than if they bargained on their own. That is…