Looks as if Laurence Tribe wrote a book in the mid-1980s that borrowed heavily from another scholar's work, without attribution. I would never have suspected Tribe of such a thing, but Joseph Bottum's comparison of the two works is quite compelling.
Professors at Harvard are not special. Their arguments are not air tight their prose is not perfect, and mistakes are merely human. No one should be surprised at such issues.
Wow! Isn't Tribe one of the most cited legal scholars ever? I guess no one's perfect. What in the heck is going on at Harvard?
ReplyDeleteThere's now a blog on all the Harvard plagiarism stories: http://authorskeptics.blogspot.com.
ReplyDeleteProfessors at Harvard are not special. Their arguments are not air tight their prose is not perfect, and mistakes are merely human. No one should be surprised at such issues.
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