Abstract
This article is about the right of university professors to exercise their academic freedom to speak out and to teach in a new forum: the Internet. Although the Internet is a new forum, this article will attempt to show that the same basic rights and duties that apply to professors in the classroom and in the academic media apply to professors speaking out on the Internet. Part I sets the stage with a very brief history of the Internet. Part II examines the principal cases dealing with academic free speech as they relate to the Internet. Most of these cases deal with universities and with the Internet, but because this area is new, I also have included analogous cases dealing with high schools and the print media. Part III contains a description of the current limits of academic free speech on the Internet and of what I believe those limits should be.
Recommended Citation
Ray August,
Gratis Dictum! The Limits of Academic Free Speech on the Internet,
10 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y
(1998).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/jlpp/vol10/iss1/3