Practice question
Does academic freedom create immunity from every applicable legal requirement and due-process safeguard?
- Yes, whenever a university invokes the phrase
- Yes, if tuition has been paid
- Yes, because students have no legally protected interests
- Yes, because courts can never review any university action
- No; institutional autonomy operates with applicable legal and procedural limits
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article XIV, Section 5(2) and (3), academic freedom and educational choice: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353
- Ateneo de Manila University v. Capulong, G.R. No. 99327, May 27, 1993, main decision, institutional academic freedom and student discipline: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1993/may1993/gr_99327_1993.html
- University of the Philippines Board of Regents v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 134625, August 31, 1999, main decision, withdrawal of fraudulently obtained degree subject to due process: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1999/aug1999/gr_134625_1999.html
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