Political, Societal, and Legal Threats to the State of Academic Freedom in Europe

Abstract

Several recent analyses point to a variety of pressures on academic freedom in Europe. While structural infringements with academic freedom are usually aligned with illiberal democracies/autocratic regimes, both gradual processes of erosion and serious academic freedom incidents have been identified in liberal democracies. The panel invites theoretically grounded empirical analyses of the de jure and de facto state of academic freedom, and the political and legal initiatives to counter the ongoing threats to academic freedom in Europe and beyond.

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