Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

7-13-2012

SSRN Discipline

PSN Subject Matter eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Innovation Disciplines eJournals; Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy eJournals; IRPN Subject Matter eJournals; Innovation Research & Policy Network; Legal Scholarship Network; Law & Society eJournals; Law & Society: Public Law eJournals; CSN Subject Matter eJournals; Cognitive Science Network; Political Institutions eJournals; Political Science Network

Abstract

Examines the applicability of existing constitutional law to state action that prohibits or burdens or declines to fund scientific research merely because the state considers the area inappropriate Posits that governmental decisions to limit scientific inquiry implicate constitutional values by virtue of the connection between science and knowledge

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