The court could strike down the law passed on Monday that seeks to curb its power. Or it might narrowly interpret it. Or it might simply put off any decision.
LIVE EVENT - Democratic Erosion and Academic Freedom: Hungary, India, Turkey and Beyond (13 May)
Democratic Erosion and Academic Freedom
Hungary, India, Turkey and Beyond
Thursday, 13 May 2021
12:00 PM CDT
Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Chicago Center on Democracy, the University of Chicago s Department of Political Science, and the Arab Studies Institute
Widespread democratic backsliding is raising alarm bells about the future of academic freedom in democratic and autocratic regimes. Such fears are not unwarranted. Institutions of higher education suffer from systemic and multi-faceted attacks across the globe. Transgressions on university autonomy, restrictions on research and curriculum, widespread neoliberal transformation of funding structures, and attacks on the life and liberty of academics themselves demonstrate the extensiveness of the arsenal employed by a multitude of governments. Are the recent attacks on academic freedom spill