"Kneecapping" Academic Freedom,
2010
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
"Kneecapping" Academic Freedom, Robert R. Kuehn, Peter A. Joy
Scholarship@WashULaw
As universities increasingly seek to educate students through service learning courses, law school clinics may be the bellwether for determining if faculty’s traditional academic freedom of teaching will transcend the traditional classroom or be left at the classroom door. Recent legislative and corporate efforts to interfere in the operations of law clinics indicate that academic freedom is at risk when hands-on student learning bumps up against “real world” disputes. This article examines why attacks on law school clinics are a harbinger of how academic freedom is treated when it moves out of the classroom.
The authors discuss the role of …
