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Jacqueline Newmyers's fine article ("Berkowitz Prepares to File Formal Grievance over Tenure Denial," Dec. 14, 1998) summarizes the fundamental procedural flaws-concerning both the composition of the ad hoc committee and the participation in the tenure review by Associate Provost of the University, Director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions, and Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson-at the center of my appeal. However, some of the information given to Ms. Newmyer by members of the Harvard faculty and administration is untrue or misleading and needs to be corrected...
...routinely recuse themselves from matters touching on tenure review in their home departments. A letter to me and my advisor, Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, of Oct. 21, 1998, from Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, chair of the Department of Government, explains that in the composition of the ad hoc committee, "The Dean has the final word, presumably to ensure that no Department can pack the committee to ensure success." Harvard's own tenure review procedures require that the president, so far from relying on the objectivity of tenured faculty, must consult with scholars from other departments and from outside...
Professor Thompson pointed out that "he did not appear before the ad hoc committee, as he was out of town on the day it met." But this hardly settles the question of whether he participated in the tenure review after departmental deliberations...
Members of the ad hoc committee said theyintended to host a forum for students to expresstheir views on the $40,000 question before thecouncil makes its decision...
Where is justice? The answer, one that Americans instinctively resist, is that there is no justice. The international arena is a Hobbesian state of nature, a world of ad hoc rulemaking where anarchy is tempered only by the rule of the bully. It must be so. In any social system--whether of individuals or nation-states--where there is no enforcer, there can be no real...