Scientific Freedom

Sebastian Porsdam Mann is research fellow at the Faculty of Law, Oxford, and a researcher at UEHIRO Centre of Ethics, University of Oxford. He is Chief Academic Officer at A&BC Consulting and Postdoc fellow at Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics.Helle Porsdam is professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights at the University of Copenhagen. She has headed research projects and published widely on the interface of cultural rights, copyright, creativity and cultural heritage institutions. In 2021 she was awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences University of Cambridge.Maximilian M. Schmid studied international business at Munich Business School and carried out graduate work in management at IE Business School in Madrid. After a year of international experience working for Cosana in Tokyo, MMS and SPM founded and is the CEO of A&BC Consulting. Since 2019 MMS has been the managing director of Cosana Europe.Péter Vilmos Treit is research fellow at the Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry. He studied biomedical sciences at Queen Mary University in London, before embarking on graduate work in biochemistry at Ludwig-Maximillian-University in Munich. He has worked as a research assistant and laboratory scientist in the Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Although scientific freedom is clearly at the heart of the right to science as a human right, it is less clear what this freedom entails and how it interacts with other rights and freedoms. This book is the first to provide a very comprehensive and accessible analysis of the historical, theoretical and practical dimensions of scientific freedom. A must-read for professionals and policymakers in this field!

• Opening Vignette: Artificial Intelligence and IntroductionPART ONE: Setting the Scene and Providing the Necessary Historical BackgroundChapter 1: Historical Background and Key Concepts And DefinitionsChapter 2: A Systematic Review of The Scholarly Literature On Scientific Freedom: Methods And ResultsChapter 3: Taking Human Right to the Next Level: The Right to Science, History and ContentChapter 4: Scientific Freedom: How Does It Relate to Scientific Dissemination and International Co-Operation?PART TWO: SAFIRES: A Conceptual Model of Scientific Freedom Obligations under International Human Rights LawChapter 5: The SAFIRES (Scientific and Academic Freedom as Integral elements of the Right to Enjoy the benefits of Science) ModelChapter 6: The Scope of ’Science’ and ‘Scientific Freedom’ in Three Human Rights Instruments PART THREE: Working with Scientific Freedom And The Right To Science In PracticeChapter 7: On Drafting the General Comment on Science (2013-2020): A Personal Account, Mikel MancisidorChapter 8: Litigating the Right to Science before the CESCR: the View from the Trenches, Cesare P.R. RomanoChapter 9: Defending Science, Knowledge and Facts: The UN And Scientific Freedom Of Expression, Malene Nielsen and Carsten StaurAppendicesIndex