Author: Dennis Hayes
What is the best free speech practice in universities?
The Best Free Speech Practice (BFSP) project is made up of lawyers and free speech campaigners who are working to clarify and disseminate what the legal requirements and their implications […]
The Hypocrisy of Academic Boycotts
In this guest post, Guy Whitehouse, discusses why be believes that boycotts of Israeli academic institutions are hypocritical. Last July, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions. […]
Liverpool AFAF meeting
A group of academics from various higher education institutions (HEIs) in Liverpool met on Wednesday 14 June to discuss free speech and the implications of the new Higher Education (Freedom […]
Academic Unfreedom
In this piece, Jacob Reynolds, the Head of Policy at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Brussels, takes to task a recent EU Parliament report into academic freedom. Academic freedom is a […]
Reflections on The ‘Banned’ List
Keenan Clough* reviewed The ‘Banned’ List AFAF has been recording examples of protests, no-platforming, sackings, and resignations that have resulted in the restriction of freedom of speech on campuses across […]
Left and right on free speech legislation
Professor Lindsay Paterson, emeritus professor of education policy at the University of Edinburgh, discusses the changed attitude of the liberal left to state legislation. Something ideologically peculiar is happening in […]
The importance of academic freedom
A talk given by Professor Dennis Hayes at Canterbury Christ Church University on Wednesday 2 November 2022. It would be wrong to assume that everyone in the academy supports academic […]
Academics have internalised the fatwa. It is time to defend free speech, no ifs, no buts.
In a little over a week the attempted murder of Sir Salman Rushdie has vanished from the headlines. At the outset there were condemnations of the attack declaring it a […]
