1st Edition

The Legal Regulation of Academic Freedom The Case of Biomedicine

By Lucia Pallier Copyright 2026
296 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book compares and examines the ways in which law addresses and resolves conflicts between academic freedom and responsibility. Academic freedom is an important value in the modern scientific and technologically driven world. Societies depend heavily on the commodities of scientific progress, especially in essential sectors such as healthcare, and, as a result, research is now carried out in... Read more

Introduction: Science and Society

Chapter 1: Issues in the modern academic system

Chapter 2: Academic freedom in European Constitutions

Chapter 3: The American Association of University Professors’ perspective on academic freedom and responsibility

Chapter 4: The constitutional protection of academic freedom in the United States – First Amendment caselaw

Chapter 5: The protection of academic freedom and responsibility in the framework of the United Nations

Chapter 6: Academic freedom in the context of the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (CE)

Conclusion: Biomedical policy reform at the crossroads of freedom and responsibility

Biography

Lucia Pallier works as a healthcare attorney in Los Angeles, California.