Building and Managing Custom Case Repositories to Support Teaching, Learning and Inquiry

The  Academic Freedom Gaza Repository is a searchable repository of Gaza-related cases that raise issues of academic freedom, freedom of expression, and/or First Amendment rights. The cases include, but are not limited to, legal cases.  

Issues represented include cancellation, curriculum, deportation, due process, employment action, hostile environment, institutional autonomy, political neutrality, public speech, research, scholasticide, and student press.  

The repository allows users to suggest potential additional cases and provide relevant information.  We appreciate your input!

The Academic Freedom Nebraska Case Repository is a searchable collection of Nebraska cases involving or threatening intellectual freedom in academic contexts. The repository is a project of the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska, a coalition of Nebraska organizations concerned with intellectual freedom in academic contexts, including freedoms of belief, expression, teaching, learning, inquiry, publication, and access to information and ideas. Only a few of the cases are legal cases but all are specific incidents. 

The repository is searchable in a variety of ways, including by:

• issue (e.g., curriculum, research, book censorship, student press);
• course/topic (e.g., history, religion, sexuality, violence, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+);
• type of institution (K-12 education, higher education, library);
• target (e.g., teacher, student, researcher);
• time period (cases range from 1870 to 2024);
• place (Lincoln, Omaha, and many others); or
• any combination of these categories (e.g., race/ethnicity in K-12 education).

We hope this resource will be useful to anyone interested in teaching, learning, or writing about intellectual freedom in matters of education or research.

The repository allows users to suggest potential additional cases and provide relevant information.  We appreciate your input!