Universities such as Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge regularly dominate the global university rankings, while retaining a high regard for academic freedom. Oxford's strategic plan, for example, states that: "The most fundamental value, underpinning all of our scholarly activity, is academic freedom, defined as the freedom to conduct research, teach, speak and publish, subject to the norms and standards of scholarly inquiry, without interference or penalty, wherever the search for truth and understanding may lead.
I'm a Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Law at Trinity College Dublin. I blog at Cearta and you can follow me on twitter at @cearta. This site is a companion to both of those: anything that catches my eye on the wild wild web that's too long for twitter but too short for cearta will (probably - eventually) end up here. I'll tweet links to most posts here, and may even bring a few together under the Gallimaufry category on Cearta.
