This article is an interview I conducted with Thea Posel, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Capital Punishment Clinic at Texas Law and the …
Liberal democracies and illiberal regimes alike recognize academic freedom as a norm that enables scientific progress. This article investigates the extent to which the …
This Introduction provides an overview of the topics covered in this special issue on ‘Academic freedom: Global variations in norm conceptualization, diffusion and contestation’, …
A comprehensive review of the data quality of the first systematic global measurement of academic freedom, the Academic Freedom Index (AFI).
This article explores the global spread of domestic codifications of academic freedom norms by mapping constitutional provisions over time and space. Drawing on the new Academic …
The Academic Freedom in Constitutions dataset is a new resource that empirically maps constitutional guarantees of the freedom of science, of academic freedom, and of university …
In recent decades, the social significance of science has steadily increased alongside the growing complexity of global crises and the desire for rational solutions. However, this …
The Academic Freedom Index is the first conceptually thorough assessment of academic freedom worldwide and a times series dataset going back to 1900. While some previous datasets …
Universities striving for reputational gains in the competitive global higher education market rely on international rankings that claim to meaningfully identify ‘world class’ …
In this article, Janika Spannagel critically examines the increasing use of events-based (event) data to document and analyze human rights violations in civil society, journalism, …