Academic Freedom Podcast on Rescinding Harvard's Tax Exempt Status

Can Trump do that, and what would it mean?

A new episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast has been released. The podcast is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Alliance and the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School.

This episode features a conversation with Daniel Hemel on President Donald Trump's threat to rescind the tax exempt status of Harvard University. Hemel is a professor of law at New York University Law School, with an expertise in taxation, nonprofit organizations, and constitutional law.

On the podcast we discuss how private universities fit into the federal tax code, the legalities of altering the tax exempt status of a university, the implications for the future of a university subjected to such an action, the risks to other nonprofits beyond higher education if the administration were to take such a step, and the intricacies of the controversy over Bob Jones University and the legacy of Bob Jones University v. United States.