Lee C. Bollinger served as Columbia University's 19th president from 2002 to 2023. He is Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Columbia Law School faculty, and one of the nation's foremost First Amendment scholars.Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone joined the faculty in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He is a preeminent constitutional law scholar.

• Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone: Opening Dialogue Part I The History of Academic Freedom in the United States and the Arrival of the Trump Administration 1: Robert C. Post: The Assault on Academic Freedom 2: Cass R. Sunstein: "Our Money or Your Life!" Higher Education and the First Amendment 3: Nicholas B. Dirks: Academic Freedom, Ideological Capture, and the Autonomy of the University 4: Niall Ferguson: Executive Authority and Academic Freedom Part II The Authoritarian Playbook on Academic Freedom: Federal Funding 5: Erwin Chemerinsky: The Trump Administration's Assault on Academic Freedom: Controlling Funds as a Way to Impermissibly Control Universities 6: Mary-Rose Papandrea: Money, Money, Money: Universities, Government Funding, and Academic Freedom 7: Aziz Z. Huq: The End of the Cold War University Part III The Authoritarian Playbook on Academic Freedom: Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination 8: Robert Shibley and Nadine Strossen: Title VI Rights and Wrongs: Campuses Must Bar Discrimination Against Both Identities and Ideas 9: Olatunde Johnson: Equal Protection and Academic Freedom 10: Mary Anne Franks: Little Fascists Everywhere: The National Socialist Playbook of Trump's War on Universities Part IV The Authoritarian Playbook on Academic Freedom: Courts and Immigration 11: Leah M. Litman: Courting Higher Ed: How Right-Wing Attacks on Higher Education Mimic Their Attacks on the Courts 12: Ilya Somin: How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom Part V University Culture and Its Contribution to the Demise of Academic Freedom 13: Tom Ginsburg: The American Attack on Academic Freedom in Comparative Perspective 14: Louis Michael Seidman: Academic Freedom and the Progressive Crackup 15: Suzanna Sherry: Academic Freedom and Academic Orthodoxy 16: Larry Kramer and Lee C. Bollinger: Committing to Intellectual Fallibility: The Improper Use of Academic Freedom to Limit Speech Part VI The Future of Academic Freedom: Understanding What's at Stake and Forming a Response 17: Randall L. Kennedy: Private Universities, Freedom, and Federal Power in the Trump Era: The Case of Harvard 18: M. Elizabeth Magill: Persuading the Unpersuaded 19: Steven G. Poskanzer: Stances in Defense of Institutional Academic Freedom 20: Amy Gutmann And Lee Bollinger: What's the Danger of the Trump Administration's Demands on Universities?

Lee C. Bollinger served as Columbia University's 19th president from 2002 to 2023. He is Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Columbia Law School faculty, and one of the nation's foremost First Amendment scholars.Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone joined the faculty in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He is a preeminent constitutional law scholar.

• Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone: Opening Dialogue Part I The History of Academic Freedom in the United States and the Arrival of the Trump Administration 1: Robert C. Post: The Assault on Academic Freedom 2: Cass R. Sunstein: "Our Money or Your Life!" Higher Education and the First Amendment 3: Nicholas B. Dirks: Academic Freedom, Ideological Capture, and the Autonomy of the University 4: Niall Ferguson: Executive Authority and Academic Freedom Part II The Authoritarian Playbook on Academic Freedom: Federal Funding 5: Erwin Chemerinsky: The Trump Administration's Assault on Academic Freedom: Controlling Funds as a Way to Impermissibly Control Universities 6: Mary-Rose Papandrea: Money, Money, Money: Universities, Government Funding, and Academic Freedom 7: Aziz Z. Huq: The End of the Cold War University Part III The Authoritarian Playbook on Academic Freedom: Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination 8: Robert Shibley and Nadine Strossen: Title VI Rights and Wrongs: Campuses Must Bar Discrimination Against Both Identities and Ideas 9: Olatunde Johnson: Equal Protection and Academic Freedom 10: Mary Anne Franks: Little Fascists Everywhere: The National Socialist Playbook of Trump's War on Universities Part IV The Authoritarian Playbook on Academic Freedom: Courts and Immigration 11: Leah M. Litman: Courting Higher Ed: How Right-Wing Attacks on Higher Education Mimic Their Attacks on the Courts 12: Ilya Somin: How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom Part V University Culture and Its Contribution to the Demise of Academic Freedom 13: Tom Ginsburg: The American Attack on Academic Freedom in Comparative Perspective 14: Louis Michael Seidman: Academic Freedom and the Progressive Crackup 15: Suzanna Sherry: Academic Freedom and Academic Orthodoxy 16: Larry Kramer and Lee C. Bollinger: Committing to Intellectual Fallibility: The Improper Use of Academic Freedom to Limit Speech Part VI The Future of Academic Freedom: Understanding What's at Stake and Forming a Response 17: Randall L. Kennedy: Private Universities, Freedom, and Federal Power in the Trump Era: The Case of Harvard 18: M. Elizabeth Magill: Persuading the Unpersuaded 19: Steven G. Poskanzer: Stances in Defense of Institutional Academic Freedom 20: Amy Gutmann And Lee Bollinger: What's the Danger of the Trump Administration's Demands on Universities?