Pozen Center Reports, launched in 2025, is a series of original, longform articles that draw attention to forward-thinking conversations among human rights scholars and practitioners, highlighting their relevance to pressing issues of our time. We envision these reports functioning as resources both within and beyond human rights spaces.

University College Toronto

Report 1: What Kind of Freedom is Academic Freedom? (February 2025)

Academic freedom remains a hot-button but poorly-understood concept. How do human rights experts define it? How does this definition differ from those commonly used in the United States and elsewhere? And how can the human rights tradition help articulate and protect the roles of research, teaching, and learning?

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