tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post109638325040730323..comments2024-03-26T12:23:35.307-05:00Comments on The Buck Stops Here: Thoughts on Plagiarism and Legal ScholarshipStuart Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1096488359716795332004-09-29T15:05:00.000-05:002004-09-29T15:05:00.000-05:00Well, law schools in general do seem to be much mo...Well, law schools in general do seem to be much more patient with professors who are excellent teachers and thinkers, but don't produce a lot of research. In a way, it's admirable, since research should not be the only end of a university. However, it does seem to lead to a bit of cutting corners when it comes time to produce some scholarly work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1096393675071350502004-09-28T12:47:00.000-05:002004-09-28T12:47:00.000-05:00Speaking as a former Dershowitz student, I can say...Speaking as a former Dershowitz student, I can say that he is among the professors MOST responsive to student concerns. And I'm not at all inclined to agree with his politics ... or his laughable VRWC excuse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1096387338269010592004-09-28T11:02:00.000-05:002004-09-28T11:02:00.000-05:00As to Dershowitz (and the same might apply to Glen...As to Dershowitz (and the same might apply to Glenn Reynolds), he surely qualifies as a "public intellectual." Every university can afford to support a few of those.<br /><br />As to legal education at Harvard or Yale, it obviously serves mostly as a screening process. But disinterested screening is not worthless. An alternative system could be constructed under which law firms administered IQ tests (scores would correlate highly with LSAT scores), and gave three year unpaid internships to the high scorers. But the firms would need to design mechanisms to ensure that the interns actually were challenged and tested, and to prevent (i) the interns from goofing off and (ii) the individual lawyers in the firm from exploiting the interns as glorified paralegals.<br /><br />Since I didn't go to a lower-ranking school, I can't comment on what their value might be.<br /><br />Y81Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com