[lbo-talk] Law and Tenure Revocation/Academic Dismissal

Auguste Blanqui blanquist at gmail.com
Sat Jul 1 09:47:54 PDT 2006


A question for the lawyers and some of the others... Does anyone know what the legal precedent for tenure revocation and academic dismissal is? I was having an argument with someone on Churchill, and then the state of academic freedom more generally, then wondered what legal grounds might exist for formal job termination. I don't know anything about academics, but I've looked at the medical and legal professions, and the main issues that come up are whether the behavior of the person was directly related to his or her professional competence (politics wouldn't be) and the degree to which internal professional proceedings are "internal" and not bound by due process requirements. Does anyone know of any major academic freedom cases and how they played out? I'm wondering what legal recourse an academic who thought he or she was denied tenure or fired because of politics or some issue having nothing to do with academic competence would have. (Am thinking also of the gender discrimination tenure cases -- e.g. Theda Skocpol -- and whether those precedents might be useful) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20060701/bfc639ac/attachment.htm>


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