Word: choper
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...faculty can have some very substantial divisions on philosophical issues for a long time and still continue to do its thing in the classroom," said Jesse Choper, dean of the Law School at the University of California at Berkeley...
...extremely unfortunate if people are making ideology a criterion for the tenure process," Choper said. "There could be more effect on the long term nature of the institution, if quality is submissive to ideology. It could even damage a great law school like Harvard...
...Tribe, who was appointed to the Harvard Law School faculty at the ripe young age of 26. His 1978 treatise American Constitutional Law has become a primary reference work for scholars, lawyers and judges across the country and has been cited in more than 400 court cases. Jesse Choper, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, places Tribe at "the very top of his field" as one of the law's most brilliant scholars. In recent years. Tribe has also become a fearsome presence in the courtroom, where he generally takes the liberal side...
Berkeley Law Professor Jesse Choper suspects that the Justices took the case because they wanted to discourage the increasing encroachments on their church-state doctrine. "They're not going to let people chisel away at the perimeters," says Choper...