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...offer to buy out her contract in exchange for her departure.“This is shocking and it’s most unfortunate. However good a deal Linda got out of it, the country is so much worse off,” said constitutional law scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 . “There’s never been anybody who’s covered the Supreme Court with the sensitivity, the depth, and the perception that she has.”A Government concentrator at Radcliffe, Greenhouse joined the Times only a month after graduating...
...college says that racism had no bearing on the way the investigation was conducted or on the findings.” This is not the first time in recent memory that a reputable university has refused to dismiss a professor for plagiarism. In Sept. 2004, Harvard constitutional law scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 apologized for not properly citing another professor’s work in his 1985 book, “God Save This Honorable Court.” That same year, law professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. admitted to lifting six paragraphs in his book...
...herself and her tenure, and also reflect favorably upon the University as a whole. Under Kagan’s wise leadership, the law school has seen the appointment of a number of celebrated and widely respected legal figures in the past few months (including Noah Feldman, an accomplished scholar of the intersection between religion and politics). The intellectual firepower of these academics will help to elevate the law school’s already stellar reputation, and will fundamentally benefit the nature of discourse in Cambridge itself. Kagan’s accomplishments have not been limited to the acquisition...
Laibson, who said he knows Poterba from Laibson’s days as a graduate student at MIT, added that Poterba is known for his breadth and productivity as a scholar...
Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford legal scholar known for his work in cyber and copyright law, said Tuesday that he was strongly considering a run for Congress, an announcement that comes a week after Harvard cyberlaw professor John G. Palfrey, Jr. ’94 started a “Draft Lessig” movement to encourage him to seek office. Lessig, who left Harvard Law School for its west coast rival in 2000, has developed a loyal following for his attacks on the American copyright law regime, which he blames for stifling creativity and threatening the development of culture. Since...