I’ve been invited by the LEI (Law, Economics and Institutions) Cluster at the Faculty of Economics of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano to contribute to a research project on the status of academic research. The kick-off event of the project was the international conference “Academic Freedom Today. Insights from Law, Philosophy and Institutional Practice”, which took place in Bolzano on December 6-7, 2018, and to which I was invited as a keynote speaker. Proceedings will appear as a volume of the book series “Palgrave Critical University Studies”.