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Clark and Bok reported their findings that the passage was lifted from Yale Professor Jack M. Balkin??s 2001 collection of essays, What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, to HLS Dean Elena Kagan. Based on their report, Kagan called the matter “a serious scholarly transgression,” HLS communications director Michael A. Armini wrote in an e-mail. He added that she declined to comment further...
...told the Boston Globe last Thursday that the use of Balkin??s material appeared to be an accident, partially caused by publisher W.W. Norton’s insistence on a “very tight deadline...
...Ogletree told The Crimson that he had not read the passage of Balkin??s book that appears in his own work. An assistant inserted the material into a manuscript and intended for another assistant to summarize the passage, according to Ogletree’s statement. The first assistant inadvertently dropped the end quote, and the second assistant accidentally deleted the attribution to Balkin before sending a draft to the publisher...
...Nonetheless, knowing Professor Ogletree and his work, any speculation that anyone knew of the repetition of Professor Balkin??s material beforehand would, frankly, be outrageous and even libelous,” Capone wrote in an e-mail...
...Norton did check every footnote to the book,” she said. “You wouldn’t have any other way of knowing unless you had read Balkin??s book and had an exceptional memory...