The paper aims at define the concept of academic freedom in particular in the context of the European legal sources. Even if during the Middle Age born the idea of a special corporative status of the professors, only the Constitutions of the second half of the twentieth century recognised the academic freedom as a legal individual right. Such an individual right is regulated as category of the freedom of expression, even if characterised by particular aspects. Like any individual rights right, recognised at constitutional level, freedom of teaching and research are subject to limitations that protect other fundamental rights. Furthermore, today the academic freedom has lost its traditional sense as defence against the public powers and is granted to play a social function, protecting not only protects the corporative interests of teachers. It can then be concluded that only the developing of the social role of education and research, through the principles of quality, transparency and accountability, that it is possible ensures the individual and institutional rights of the teachers and researchers, strengthening and upgrading the role that universities are playing in the last 900 years
The shape of water: freedom and rules in the organisation of research activities
Cippitani, Roberto
2018
Abstract
The paper aims at define the concept of academic freedom in particular in the context of the European legal sources. Even if during the Middle Age born the idea of a special corporative status of the professors, only the Constitutions of the second half of the twentieth century recognised the academic freedom as a legal individual right. Such an individual right is regulated as category of the freedom of expression, even if characterised by particular aspects. Like any individual rights right, recognised at constitutional level, freedom of teaching and research are subject to limitations that protect other fundamental rights. Furthermore, today the academic freedom has lost its traditional sense as defence against the public powers and is granted to play a social function, protecting not only protects the corporative interests of teachers. It can then be concluded that only the developing of the social role of education and research, through the principles of quality, transparency and accountability, that it is possible ensures the individual and institutional rights of the teachers and researchers, strengthening and upgrading the role that universities are playing in the last 900 yearsI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
