CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Pahuja, Riya |
|---|---|
| Title | Conceptualizing a Constitutional Framework for Academic Freedom in India: A case for Constitutional Transplant through Latin American and Eurocentric Conceptualizations of Academic Freedom |
| Summary | This thesis is an invitation to constitutionalize academic freedom in India by conceptualizing its framework through Constitutional Transplant of Latin American and Eurocentric conceptualizations of academic freedom. The Latin American and Eurocentric models offer distinguishable frameworks, as the former assumes the prominence of institutional autonomy to enable academic freedom, while the latter provides for the individual aspect of academic freedom and recognizes institutional autonomy as a functional requirement for academic freedom. To determine the viability of each of these models for India, the thesis examines not only the nature of threats towards academic freedom in India but also reveals how it has escaped the jurisprudence of Indian Constitutional Courts wherein such jurisprudence is marked by an omission on the deliberation of academic freedom. In furtherance of the same, this thesis argues that both, Latin American and Eurocentric conceptualizations, with their focus on institutional and individual aspects of academic freedom, respectively, need to be incorporated as distinct but intertwined rights within India’s Constitutional framework. It further encourages such incorporation through means of judicial dialogue and strategic litigation. |
| Supervisor | LYER, KIRSTEN, ROBERTS |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/pahuja_riya.pdf |
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