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Ogletree praised Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill.—a graduate of Harvard Law School and Ogletree??s former student—for his leadership in the Democratic party...
...conflate them. In Dershowitz’ case, for example, the charges against him—that he improperly omitted a secondary source from which he ostensibly obtained certain primary source citations—do not unambiguously point to plagiarism. On the other hand, HLS Dean Elena Kagan has labeled Ogletree??s offense “a serious scholarly transgression.” Ogletree defended his errors by explaining that the mistake resulted from an editing mix-up caused by his assistants. After Ogletree failed to recognize that he had never written the text in question, the other author?...
...plagiarism ordinarily warrant withdrawal from the College for at least two semesters (with exceptions sometimes granted for “genuine confusion” over citation procedures, though Professor Tribe could hardly make that argument), in comparison, Harvard’s disciplinary policy towards its professors is laughable. In Ogletree??s case, the Law School has refused to provide any details about how Ogletree will be punished, but it is safe to say that a scholar of his stature will walk away relatively unscathed...
Tribe’s mea culpa comes just three weeks after another prominent Harvard faculty member—Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree??publicly apologized for copying six paragraphs almost word-for-word from a Yale scholar in a recent book, All Deliberate Speed...
...Ogletree??s “serious scholarly transgression”—so deemed by Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan—not only leaves a blemish on the renowned professor’s resume and reveals a ludicrous double standard, it is also indicative of an alarming trend currently threatening the legitimacy of the work of those in academia; that is, the extensive use of research assistants and students to do much of a project’s grunt work. Of course, it’s entirely legitimate to acquire help from assistants, but that...