Word: scholarly
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...Klarman said. "If it weren't for her, I'm pretty confident this actually wouldn't have happened. [...]She was persevering, generous, warm and caring." While the Law School made appointments in the past decade that strengthened the faculty in corporate and business law, it has recently added more scholars in the fields of constitutional and administrative law, according to Professor Richard H. Fallon, a constitutional scholar. "As I look at the rising generation of young scholars, we’ve been extraordinarily successful in getting the best of the generation," said Fallon, who serves on the appointments committee...
Since 2002, a little-known academic ritual has taken place each year at Harvard University. Academics of every stripe, from historians to constitutional lawyers, gather to discuss Tibet's past, present and future. Uniquely, these intellectual debates have brought together Chinese and exiled Tibetan scholars. In the real world, the simplest facts about Tibet are so divisive that dialogue is impossible. Chinese speak of the 1950 peaceful liberation of the Chinese province of Tibet, and of its subsequent modernization; Tibetans speak of the invasion of an independent nation, and the suppression of its religious and cultural traditions. The polite rules...
...Civil War scholar raised in Virginia, Faust has written extensively on the experience of white slave-holding women and Confederate nationalism...
...This approach has given her a reputation as a “restless” scholar, says Edward L. Ayers, a Civil War scholar and the president of the University of Richmond...
Marshall I. Goldman, a senior scholar at the Davis Center, was on the faculty at Wellesley College during the stabbing. He says that while he is following the trial, the portion of those still interested in the retrial is a “narrow subset” who are more closely linked to Pring-Wilson...