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Politics Daily, 30 Jul 2009
How much should an academic institution sacrifice in the name of lively debate? The instinctive answer, it seems, is pretty much everything. Don't the foundations of academia rely on intellectual discussion, most often fueled by opposing viewpoints? How can true growth be fostered when students and faculty are only exposed to a singular world view? And yet, mustn't this expectation of academic freedom have some limit? New York University School of Law has recently been forced to confront these longstanding questions.
Earlier this month, the appointment of Li-Ann Thio, a prominent law professor from the National University of Singapore, as a visiting professor in the Hauser Global Law School Program, sparked incredible controversy among the NYU community.
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