Universities have become willing partners in systems of privatized law
making with global implications. Recently, universities have extended their complicity in these
public-private regulatory complexes by extending a power to monitor and
regulate a faculty's engagement with "foreign visitors" and more
importantly with the people that a faculty member may see and engage
with while that faculty member is abroad without the prior approval of
the university. This should concern not merely faculty but anyone
interested in the privatization of rights regimes to enable the state to
constrain behavior indirectly that they would be unable to effect
directly without public accountability, and perhaps constitutional
constraint. It is no longer possible to speak of states that respect free speech and engagement and those states which restrict these. The situation has become more complicated and somewhat more murky. That itself should be of concern.
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