Academic tenure: British rights to go

Academic freedom and tenure: introduction

This Theme Section consists of 11 essays aiming to explore diverse issues related to academic freedom and tenure, presenting the views and thoughts of 15 scholars from different disciplines. Historical, legal, theoretical, philosophical, political and educational aspects of academic freedom and tenure are addressed; the decline in productivity of tenured faculty is questioned; and the effect of...

Academic tenure: what does it mean?

Tenure is an integral aspect of academia. Because tenured faculty give esteem to individual physical therapy programs and to the profession as a whole, understanding the process of attaining tenure is vital to all physical therapy educators. Tenure in universities is described, and the process of attaining tenure is outlined. Criteria for tenure, factors related to transfer of faculty between u...

Maximizing Achievements in Human Rights Development: Arguments for a Rights-Based Approach to Land Tenure Reform

In the past, the human rights agenda lacked persuasive power over international development practitioners for two main reasons: 1) human rights are inherently political and therefore threaten the acceptance of international development agendas by recipient governments, and 2) human rights are not conducive to benchmarks and indicators, which donors require as measures of accountability, transpa...

Natural resource use with limited-tenure property rights

We study the dynamic harvest incentives faced by a renewable resource harvester with insecure property rights. A resource ‘‘concession’’ is granted for a fixed duration, after which it is renewed (with a known probability) only if a target stock is achieved. Despite the insecurity of this property right, simple concessions contracts can be designed to induce first best harvest trajectories. We ...

Urban Land Tenure Policy Options: Titles or Rights?