January 5, 2001
Constitutional Academic Freedom in Scholarship and in Court
What role does the First Amendment play in protecting the academic freedom of faculty members? A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Urofsky v. Gilmore, raises that fundamental question in a surprising context and answers it with brutal clarity. The Supreme Court is expected to decide this month whether it will hear the case.
The court upheld a Virginia statute that prohibits any state employee from viewing sexually explicit material on computers owned
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