The Constitution Goes to College : Five Constitutional Ideas That Have Shaped the American University / Rodney A. Smolla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smolla, Rodney A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality before the law--United States.

Equality before the law.

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

Universities and colleges--Law and legislation--United States.

Universities and colleges.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American college campuses, where ideas are freely exchanged, contested, and above all uncensored, are historical hotbeds of political and social turmoil. In the past decade alone, the media has carefully tracked the controversy surrounding the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia, the massacres at Virginia Tech, the dismissal of Harvard's President Lawrence Summers, and the lacrosse team rape case at Duke, among others. No matter what the event, the conflicts that arise on our campuses can be viewed in terms of constitutional principles, which either control or influence

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Five Constitutional Ideas That Have Influenced the Identity of American Universities

2. Academic Freedom and the Living Constitution

3. The Public and the Private Sphere

4. Rights and Privileges

5. Ordered Liberty

6. Competing Conceptions of Equality

7. Conclusion

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-219) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780814788561

0814788564

9780814783788

0814783783

OCLC:

779828382