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"...freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth."

Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Larkin vs State of California, 1927

"The protection of academic and intellectual freedoms requires a constant reminder of their value and vulnerability. To provide for that reminder, the Faculty of the University of Michigan hereby resolves to establish an Annual Senate Lecture on Academic and on Intellectual Freedom..."

University of Michigan
Senate Assembly Resolution
Adopted November 19, 1990

The Academic Freedom Lecture Fund is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization and all contributions are tax deductible under IRS regulations.  No goods or services are provided to the contributors.

 

Academic Freedom Lecture Fund
P. O. Box 4152,
Ann Arbor, Michigan   48106-4152 
http://www.umich.edu/~aflf

The Seventeenth Annual
University of Michigan Senate's
Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on
Academic and Intellectual Freedom

Nadine Strossen

 Nadine Strossen

 President, American Civil Liberties Union
Professor of Law, New York Law School


"Defending Freedom:
Even for the Thoughts We Hate"

This lecture was delivered on Friday, November 9, 2007 in the Honigman Auditorium, 100 Hutchins Hall, Law School
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Click here to view the lecture

The 2007 Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom was sponsored by the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund, American Association of University Professors University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Chapter,  University of Michigan Office of the President, University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Communications, University of Michigan Office of the Associate Vice Provost for Academic Information, University of Michigan Law School, the Board for Student Publications and the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs.  This lecture is free and open to the public.

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