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     Donald Downs


Title: Professor
Office: 303 North Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:40-4:00
Phone: 608.263.2295
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: dadowns@wisc.edu


His prize winning books include Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment and The New Politics of Pornography. More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law; Cornell `69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University; and the recently released Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus.

Downs has also published several articles dealing with law, politics, theory, and academic freedom. He has been involved in scholarship and politics concerning academic freedom and other issues.

 


Recent Publications

Donald Downs "ROTC and the Future of Liberal Education," Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle Review, May 15, 2009.
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i36/36b00801.htm  
Donald Downs "DuPont Circle Diversiphily," 22 Academic Questions (2009), pp. 207-225.   
Donald Downs "Academic Freedom: What It Is, What It Isn't, and How to Tell the Difference" John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, April 2009.
http://www.popecenter.org/inquiry_papers/article.html?id=2164  
 

Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010

470 - The First Amendment

Instructors: Donald Downs      Field: American Politics

695 - Foreign Affairs & the Law

Instructors: Donald Downs      Field: American Politics, International Relations