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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
                                                 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 Twenty-Second Annual
University of Michigan Senate's
Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on
Academic and Intellectual Freedom

Robert C. Post

 Robert C. Post

 Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law
Yale Law School

“The Constitutional Meaning of Academic Freedom"

 

Thursday, November 1, 2012
4:00 p.m.
 Honigman Auditorium

100 Hutchins Hall
University of Michigan Law School

 

Click here to to learn more about Robert C. Post

The 2012 Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund, American Association of University Professors University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Chapter and Michigan Conference,  University of Michigan: Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice President for Communications,   Law School, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and an Anonymous Donor. 

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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