Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 25 law students held a silent vigil yesterday outside a meeting in which the faculty was reportedly voting on offering feminist legal scholar Catharine A. Mackinnon a tenured position...
Trasvina said he did not know whether Tribe, a constitutional law scholar and experienced Supreme Court litigator, was the top candidate for solicitor general--the nation's top trial lawyer. He and others do consider Tribe a very strong contender...
...probably the top constitutional law scholar of the century," Sperling said yesterday. "He is just considered the premier constitutional litigator of our time right now, and I think there's no question about that...
...faulty to be involved in Black issues. This is not unlike the situation for women faculty who, like Black faculty, are relatively small in numbers and thus any given woman faculty member might find herself involved in women's issues. And both of these situations resemble that of Jewish scholars like the late Lionel Trilling who, as the first Jewish scholar at Columbia University in the 1940s, could not easily ignore the Jewish issues at Columbia...
...member of the second generation of African-American scholars (at 62 years of age), I have experienced most facets of this issue of the Black intelligentsia's relatedness to Black realities, on and off campuses. Among the Black American intelligentsia generally, these has always been a pragmatic ecumenical understanding on the matter of just how any given Black scholar of intellectual handles the ethnic-relatedness issue. Only among that neurotic nativistic sector of the Black intelligentsia represented today by the Afrocentric elements would one find opposition to this pragmatic ecumenical formula...