Laurence Tribe, the liberal Harvard law professor, has been reprimanded by Harvard for a "significant lapse in proper academic practice".Laurence Tribe Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. He also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. , the liberal Harvard law professor, has been reprimanded by Harvard for a "significant lapse in proper academic practice." The reprimand REPRIMAND, punishment. The censure which in some cases a public office pronounces against an offender. 2. This species of punishment is used by legislative bodies to punish their members or others who have been guilty of some impropriety of conduct towards them. comes six months after The Weekly Standard reported great similarities between Tribe's 1985 God Save This Honorable Court and Henry J. Abraham's 1974 Justices and Presidents. Eerily similar phrasing--right down to quotation mistakes and a 19-word sentence lifted directly from Abraham--peppered the entirety of Tribe's book, which had no footnotes and only a brief mention of Justices and Presidents at the end. Nevertheless, Harvard president Larry Summers and law-school dean Elena Kagan attributed the congruence con·gru·ence n. 1. a. Agreement, harmony, conformity, or correspondence. b. An instance of this: "What an extraordinary congruence of genius and era" to "inadvertence The absence of attention or care; the failure of an individual to carefully and prudently observe the progress of a court proceeding that might have an effect upon his or her rights. rather than intentionality intentionality Property of being directed toward an object. Intentionality is exhibited in various mental phenomena. Thus, if a person experiences an emotion toward an object, he has an intentional attitude toward it. ," and said it was more closely related to "matters of phrasing than to fundamental ideas." Tribe apologized for what he joins Harvard in characterizing as his sins of omission. As far as Harvard is concerned, there will be no further sanctions, though, according to the university's handbook, a student caught for similar transgressions would "ordinarily [be] required to withdraw from the College." |
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