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Education Law

Jan. 30, 2023

Public interest v. academic freedom

Is unpublished academic correspondence a “public record” under the California Public Records Act that’s exempt from disclosure, and does a professor’s academic freedom and privacy rights outweigh public interest in academic publications?

William Slomanson

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Email: bills@tjsl.edu

William Slomanson is also the author of California Procedure in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2014).

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The public's right to know can dramatically clash with academic freedom and the constitutional right to privacy. A University of California, Irvine (UCI) research professor published four articles in her field of Education. An anonymous source subsequently e-mailed those journals, demanding that the articles be retracted. The Colorado State Journal of Student Affairs, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, and Journal of Latinos and Ed...

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