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Tenure review committees are all too well aware that the people who most deserve ousting are those who will have the greatest trouble finding jobs elsewhere. Says Sanford H. Kadish, a law professor at Berkeley and the A.A.U.P.'s current president: "Seven to ten years after a man gets tenure, he has kids in school, he has a house. Forcing him to find another job is not just...
...McCarthyism? Franklin's case arises just as new codes of professorial conduct are beginning to be developed. The radical activism of some faculty members, says Berkeley Law Professor Sanford Kadish, president of the American Association of University Professors, "seems to many of us in the profession to require that we, as professors, take cognizance of threats to academic freedom from within our ranks, as well as to deal with threats to academic freedom from the outside...
...trial will continue in an atmosphere of dignity." But in handing down what may be the longest contempt sentence in U.S. history, the judge startled lawyers across the country. Many law professors believe that Hoffman not only overreacted but also created constitutional problems that he could have avoided. Sanford Kadish of the University of California at Berkeley termed the sentences "savage, barbarous and vindictive." Stanford's Anthony Amsterdam called them "exceedingly rare and harsh...
...Kadish agree that the very least Hoffman could have done was to turn over the citations to another judge, who would not have been so vulnerable to charges of bias. Or Hoffman could have allowed Seale a lawyer, provided for formal arraignment, trial by jury and other normal criminal safeguards...
Questioned by TIME, some of the most distinguished law professors were almost entirely negative in their comments on the new Attorney General. "It seems," said Berkeley's Sanford Kadish, "as if the department sees the values of the Bill of Rights as no more than obstacles to be overcome. There seems to be a single-minded effort to cut the crime rate, with little sense of the constraints of the Constitution." Some of Mitchell's critics also complain that his background as a Wall Street expert on municipal bonds-about as far removed from criminal practice or civil...