18 März 2022
Threats to Academic Freedom under the Guise of Open Access
The Budapest Open Access Initiative is celebrating its 20th anniversary and today it seems that we are closer than ever to finally concluding the “access revolution” predicted by many since the arrival of the internet. Yet, developments in the publishing system increasingly suggest that the access revolution is much less revolutionary than expected. Reports gradually bring to light the extent to which publishers started to use the data tracking tools developed by “pioneers” such as Google and Facebook. This development could not only be the final blow for the Open Access movement’s potential to more radically and structurally change the way knowledge is being disseminated in the digital age but pose a systematic threat to the autonomy of the science system and academic freedom in the digital age. Continue reading >>
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31 Mai 2021
‚Religiously‘ following science
On Wednesday, 26 May Dominic Cummings spoke in a 7-hour-long evidence session in front of the Joint Science and Technology Committee and Health and Social Care Committee of the British House of Commons. He made clear at least three things that are interesting for students of constitutionalism, and, in particular, of the implicit constitutionalism that determines the relationship between scientific expertise and power. Continue reading >>13 Mai 2021
WEBINAR 3: „Science, Law and Decision-Making“
Bringing together experts representing states who have adopted divergent attitudes to the role of science in law and decision-making, as well as an examination of vaccination policy, equity and individual choice, this panel considers the complex policy choices, rationales and politics which interplay in decision-making during a pandemic. Continue reading >>
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