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. Maximilian Martin 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. Peter 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. 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.

Opening Vignette: Artificial Intelligence and Introduction

PART ONE: Setting the Scene and Providing the Necessary Historical Background

Chapter 1: Historical Background and Key Concepts And Definitions

Chapter 2: A Systematic Review of The Scholarly Literature On Scientific Freedom: Methods And Results

Chapter 3: Taking Human Right to the Next Level: The Right to Science, History and Content

Chapter 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 Law

Chapter 5: The SAFIRES (Scientific and Academic Freedom as Integral elements of the Right to Enjoy the benefits of Science) Model

Chapter 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 Practice

Chapter 7: On Drafting the General Comment on Science (2013-2020): A Personal Account, Mikel Mancisidor

Chapter 8: Litigating the Right to Science before the CESCR: the View from the Trenches, Cesare P.R. Romano

Chapter 9: Defending Science, Knowledge and Facts: The UN And Scientific Freedom Of Expression, Malene Nielsen and Carsten Staur

Appendices

Index