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The Strange, Secret History of Tenure

Adam Sitze 2-2 minutes 8/4/2022
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Academe’s most important and embattled idea comes from the judiciary.

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Adam Sitze is a professor of law, jurisprudence, and social thought at Amherst College. In the spring of 2022, he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, in Vienna.