Harvard Plagiarism Archive


"[T]he problem of writers . . . passing off the work of others as their own . . . [is] a phenomenon of some significance."
PROFESSOR LAURENCE TRIBE, e-mail to Dean Lawrence Velvel, 9/13/2004

"'I . . . delegated too much responsibility to others . . .,' [Prof. Charles Ogletree] said. 'I was negligent
in not overseeing more carefully the final product that carries my name.' * * * Ogletree told The Crimson that
he had not read the passage of Balkin’s book that appears in his own work. An assistant inserted the material
into a manuscript . . . . But Ogletree said he was closely involved in most of the drafting of the book . . . ."

STEVEN MARKS, "Ogletree Faces Discipline for Copying Text," The Harvard Crimson, 9/13/2004

"'Ronald Klain . . . then only a first-year student at Harvard law . . . spent most of his time with
Tribe working on Tribe's [1985] book God Save This Honorable Court,'" the Legal Times added in 1993.
* * * 'Many of Klain's friends and former colleagues say that he wrote large sections of the book . . . .'"

JOSEPH BOTTUM, "The Big Mahatma," The Weekly Standard, 10/4/2004

"[A]fter several plagiarism scandals broke over distinguished faculty members at Harvard's law school, including
Laurence Tribe,a group of students there set up a blog, Harvard Plagiarism Archive, to follow the University's
handling of the problem. They believe that the University, President Summers, and Dean Elena Kagan
essentially white-washed the scandal and are demanding further action.

PROF. RALPH LUKER, History News Network's "Cliopatria" blog,4/26/2005

“The Tribe and Ogletree matters have catalyzed bitter complaints from Harvard students that the university
employs a double standard. . . . The students have every right to be incensed over this gross double standard.
They in fact ought to raise hell peacefully about it: a constant barrage of letters, emails, statements . . . .”

DEAN LAWRENCE VELVEL, "Velvel on National Affairs" blog, 4/28/2005

"If you want to keep track of this story, I recommend the new Harvard Plagiarism Archive. . . . [I]t's pretty thorough."
TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate's "Chatterbox" blog,9/28/2004

"[Y]ou have done a wonderful service to all by operating the AuthorSkeptics website . . . a fine public service."
DEAN LAWRENCE VELVEL, author of "Velvel on National Affairs," e-mail to AuthorSkeptics, 4/19/2005



Sunday, October 03, 2004

HARVARD PLAGIARISM -- more links to stories


There have been so many news and blog items during the past week discussing plagiarism at Harvard it has been difficult for us to keep up. Most focus on the latest instance of plagiarism uncovered involving Professor Laurence Tribe and a book he authored in 1985.

Most of the recent items can be pulled up through the following advanced Google search: "Tribe + (plagiarist or plagiarism or plagiarize)."

To make it easier for those interested in these issues to follow recent items, below we set out in chronological order links to the vast majority of the items on Harvard plagiarism which have appeared since we last listed links on September 16.
We have done our best to include all items which have any significant comment beyond a simple link to another item we've already included. If anyone has links we have not included, please e-mail them and we will be happy to include them. In the coming days as search engines are updated, we will probably update this post so that it contains all items posted by today, October 3.

We will continue to withhold judgment on this latest story concerning Professor Tribe until he has an opportunity to fully explain the circumstances that led to the similarities between his book and Professor Abraham's book, and to identify what specific material discussed by The Weekly Standard he failed to properly attribute to Professor Abraham (so far he has only stated he improperly failed to attribute "some" of that material). To minimize any editorial slant that might be read into any summary of these items, and to get this list out as quickly as possible, we are simply giving you the links.

We have, however, separated the links to items with relatively more discussion from those with relatively less. So under each date, we first list in bold the items which have relatively more discussion and which seem more important, followed by the items with less discussion in regular typeface.


Note: After we have more time to reread the bolded posts, we will probably identify perhaps a dozen or so as of exceptional importance, which we will mark with a bolded asterisk at the start of the item. If we do update this post in that way, we believe readers who are strongly interested in these issues will want to read all those posts, and perhaps skim some other posts.

We appreciate the many e-mails we have received in the past week, and we are sorry we have not yet had a chance to respond to most of them. Keep them coming! We especially appreciate the other bloggers who have mentioned this blog, and who have e-mailed us with updates on their posts. We would appreciate if bloggers who make further posts on these issues could e-mail us a link, so we can be sure to include it in a future post updating everyone on links.
AuthorSkeptics@hotmail.com


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Sept. 17
BoleyBlog!, “Law (Dean) Blog: Velvel on National Affairs”
http://library.lclark.edu/mt/blogs/boley/boleyblog/archives/2004/09/17/law_dean_blog_velvel_on_national_affairs.html


Sept. 18
Talkaboutcollege.com, “Harvard Crimson editorial on Ogletree’s Plagiarism”
https://web.archive.org/web/20071225135003/http://www.talkaboutcollege.com/group/soc.college.admissions/messages/71446.html


Sept. 20
Sept. 20, 2004
Wilmott
http://www.wilmott.com/messageview.cfm?catid=15&threadid=20225

Sept. 24

Harvard Law Record (Hugo Torres)
“Ogletree admits to plagiarism”

http://hlrecord.org/?p=10961

Harvard Law Record, letter to the editor
Kyle Hudson, J.D., Harvard Law School, 2004
"The buck should stop with Ogletree"
http://hlrecord.org/?p=10929


The Weekly Standard (Joseph Bottum)
“The Big Mahatma: Laurence Tribe and the problem of borrowed scholarship”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/674eijco.asp

Free Republic (discussion)

"The Big Mahatma: Laurence Tribe and the problem of borrowed scholarship"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1226287/posts

MENZ.com (Jack Marshall), “The Plagiarizing Professor”
http://www.menz.com/content/systempl.asp?PAGENO=0&CHANNEL=B00081&RESET=YES


Sept. 25
Jeremy’s Weblog (Jeremy Blachman, Harvard Law School student)http://jeremyblachman.blogspot.com/2004/09/i-have-opinion-on-real-issue-of-some.html

 
Alas, a Blog, “Plagiarism and the Use of Assistants”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041010020555/http://amptoons.poliblog.com/blog/001141.html

The Buck Stops Here (Stuart Buck)
“More Harvard Plagiarism”
http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com/2004/09/more-harvard-plagiarism.html


Sept. 26

Balkinization (Prof. Mark Tushnet), “‘Plagiarism’ by Legal Academics”a
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2004/09/plagiarism-by-legal-academics.html
See also “correction and elaboration” here:

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2004/09/plagiarism-correction-and-elaboration.html

Class Maledictorian (Amber Taylor, Harvard Law School student)

“Professional responsibility”http://bamber.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_bamber_archive.html#109625123345607338

Palookaville, “Liberal Intellectual Giant Accused of Plagiarism”
http://palookaworld.blogspot.com/2004/09/liberal-intellectual-giant-accused-of.html

Power Line (John H. Hinderaker)
“Democrats’ Top Scholar Charged With Plagiarism”http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2004/09/007907.php

Roger’s View (Roger Schlafly), “Prof Larry Tribe is a Plagiarist”
http://www.mindspring.com/~schlafly/blog/2004-09.htm#2004-09-26+13:38:26+115

Baseball Crank, “LAW: Lost Tribe”http://baseballcrank.com/archives/003604.php

“How Appealing” (Howard Bashman)
“The Big Mahatma: Laurence Tribe and the problem of borrowed scholarship”
http://www.legalaffairs.org/howappealing


/2004_09_01_appellateblog_archive.html#109619889947489186
Brothers Judd Blog, “Plagiarize or Perish?”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041011144911/http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/016261.html

Signifying Nothing, “Third Time’s the Charm”
http://blog.lordsutch.com/?day=20040927#entry-1996

Betsy’s Page
http://betsyspage.blogspot.com/2004/09/joseph-bottums-has-expose-of-how_26.html


Sept. 27
Harvard Crimson, “Prof Admits to Misusing Source”
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503493


Instapundit (Prof. Glenn Reynolds), “Harvard Plagiarism Scandals”http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/48382/

Class Maledictorian (Amber Taylor, Harvard Law School student)

“Crimson with rage at plagiarizing professors”
http://bamber.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_bamber_archive.html#109631286598400539

The Leiter Reports (Prof. Brian Leiter)
“Is Harvard Law School the Plagiarism Leader in American Legal Education?”

https://web.archive.org/web/20041029051355/http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter/archives/002116.html

History News Network, Ralph E. Luker, “Harvard Writhing”http://www.hnn.us/blogs/entries/7591.html

Free Republic (discussion), "Prof Admits to Misusing Source (Laurence Tribe)"http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1228621/posts

Palookaville, “Tribe Apologizes, Fellow Harvard Plagiarists Begin Defense”
http://palookaworld.blogspot.com/2004/09/tribe-apologizes-fellow-harvard.html


The Buck Stops Here (Stuart Buck)
“Tribe Admits Wrongdoing”
http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com/2004/09/tribe-admits-wrongdoing.html

Groupthink Central, “The Legal Academy in Peril”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041125035402/http://groupthink.typepad.com/gtc/2004/09/the_legal_acade.html

Outside the Beltway, “Lawrence Tribe – Plagiarist”

 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/lawrence_tribe_-_plagiarist/

JURIST – Law School Buzz, “Harvard’s Tribe acknowledges missing source”
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lawschoolnews/2004/09/harvards-tribe-ackowledges-misusing.htm

Mad Minerva, “Great Moments in Ivy League Education: Hahvahd Plagiarism Archive”
http://madminerva.blog-city.com/read/837206.htm

Pejmanesque, “More on Plagiarism at Harvard Law”
https://web.archive.org/web/20070903034527/http://www.pejmanesque.com/archives/007971.html

Civil War Bookshelf, “Pesky grad students get another prof in trouble”
http://cwbn.blogspot.com/2004/09/pesky-grad-students-get-another-prof.html

“How Appealing” (Howard Bashman), “Prof Admits to Misusing Source; Tribe’s apology marks third instance of HLS citation woes in past year”
http://howappealing.law.com/2004_09_01_appellateblog_archive.html#109628305117275796

 
Public Secrets: from the files of the IrishSpy, “A Plague of Plagiarists?”
http://www.livejournal.com/users/irishspy/33763.html

Stop the Bleating, “Larry Tribe, Plagiarist: Will This Prove to be the Tip of the Iceberg?”
https://web.archive.org/web/20050306063306/http://stopthebleating.typepad.com/stop_the_bleating/2004/09/larry_tribe_pla.html

Clayton Cramer’s Blog
“Academic Corner Cutting: It’s Becoming Epidemic at the Better Schools”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041012000329/http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2004_09_26_archive.html

Libertyblog.com, “Crimson Faced”
https://web.archive.org/web/20051211185256/http://libertyblog.com/archives/004818.html

EvilBlog, "More Harvard Plagiarism and Shame" (scroll down to post of 14:50 for article, accompanised by composite photo)
http://evilmav2.journalspace.com/?b=1095836400&e=1096614000

Prestopundit, “The Other Sick Man”
http://www.hayekcenter.org/prestopunditarchive/004465.html

Arguing With Signposts, “But He Did It”
https://web.archive.org/web/20050427232830/http://arguewithsigns.net/mt/archives/002254.html


Sept. 28
Boston Globe (Marcella Bombardieri)
“Tribe admits not crediting author: Harvard scholar publicly apologizes”

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2004/09/28/tribe_admits_not_crediting_author

 
Greg Weston, "Amber Taylor Needs to Chill Out"
http://www.helpkerry.org/mt/archives/000058.html


Class Maledictorian (Amber Taylor, Harvard Law School student)
"I refuse to chill out"

http://bamber.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_bamber_archive.html#109641978192912109


Boston Herald, “Harvard law prof admits swiping phrase from book”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041009230101/http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=46312

CNN.com, “Harvard scholar acknowledges plagiarism”
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/09/28/harvard.scholar.ap

Associated Press, “Harvard Prof Acknowledges Lifting Passages”http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/other/1110/9-28-2004/20040928074502_006.html

Timothy Noah, “Chatterbox,” Slate
“More Harvard Plagiarism: What is it with these superstar profs?”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2004/09/more_harvard_plagiarism.html

The Leiter Reports (Prof. Gary Lawson)
“The Exploitation of Research Assistants by Law Professors” (including comments)

https://web.archive.org/web/20041029053239/http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter/archives/002120.html

Rush Limbaugh, “Lots of Accidents Happen At Harvard”

 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092804/content/stack_a.guest.html

Foxnews.com, “Copycat Controversy?”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133803,00.html

Class Maledictorian (Amber Taylor, Harvard Law School student),

“More excuses” 
http://bamber.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_bamber_archive.html#109638835498164660

Power Line (John H. Hinderaker), “Plagiarism? What Plagiarism?”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2004/09/007922.php

National Review Online, David Frum’s Diary
“What’s the Matter With Harvard?”

https://web.archive.org/web/20041001044327/http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/diary092804.asp


Free Republic (discussion), "Tribe admits not crediting author"
 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1229023/posts

“Volokh Conspiracy” (Eugene Volokh), “Surprise”
 

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_09_28.shtml#1096414524

J. Frank, conlawprof e-mail
http://www.mail-archive.com/conlawprof@lists.ucla.edu/msg02174.html

Erwin Chemerinsky, conlawprof e-mail

http://www.mail-archive.com/conlawprof@lists.ucla.edu/msg02186.html

Point of Law (Walter Olson), “Tribe and his kindred” 
http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/2004/09/tribe-and-his-k.php

Seattle Post-Intelligencier
“Harvard prof acknowledges lifting passages”
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Harvard%20Scholar

“How Appealing” (Howard Bashman), “Harvard prof admits swiping phrase from book”
http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com/2004_09_01_appellateblog_archive.html#109636936304962379


Vox Popoli, “Fraud at Harvard”
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2004/09/fraud-at-harvard.html

NewsMax.com, “Al Gore’s Egghead Laurence Tribe Admits Plagiarism”
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/28/101832.shtml

AMA TechTel.com, “Prominent Harvard lawyer admits ‘lifting’”
http://www.amatechtel.com/news/wed/ag/Uus-plagiarize.R-_v_ESS.asp

A Complete Waste of Time, “Plagiarism not just for students anymore”
https://web.archive.org/web/20050126035630/http://mathew.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/9/28/150744.html

Reducto Ad Absurdum (Kevin Whited), “What’s a Little Plagiarism Among Friends?”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041014093547/http://www.reductioadabsurdum.net/index.php?itemid=4153

Knox Snooze, “We’re all waiting . . ."
http://hensonkid.blogspot.com/2004/09/were-all-waiting.html

 
Crescat Sententia (Will Baude), “Full Responsibility”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041213104844/http://www.crescatsententia.org/archives/2004_09_28.html#004476

The Right Coast (Maimon Schwarzschild), “Steal This Book”
http://therightcoast.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_therightcoast_archive.html#109639738016763871


Talkleft.com, “Harvard Plagiarism Woes”
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/008051.html#008051

Houston’s Clear Thinkers, “Trouble in Cambridge”
http://blog.kir.com/archives/2004_09.asp#001199

Blog of a Bookslut, “Okay, this is officially getting ridiculous”
http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2004_09.php#003219

Yale Daily News (Marcel Przymusinski)
“Professor alleges Tony-nominated play steals from her life story”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041011073106/http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=26412

Civil War Bookshelf, “As Thick as Academic Thieves”
http://cwbn.blogspot.com/2004/09/as-thick-as-academic-thieves.html

Backcountry Conservative, “Tribe Apologizes for Plagiarism”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041222083019/http://www.jquinton.com/archives/001858.html

jjdaley.com, “Crimson”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041023205400/http://www.jjdaley.com/archives/002147.html

The Commons at Paulie World, “Turning Crimson?”
http://www.paulieworld.com/blog/archives/001236.html

SCSUScholars, “Tribal customs of universities and welfare state administrators”
http://www.scsuscholars.com/2004_09_01_scsu-scholars_archive.html#109638425923583228

Off the Fence, “Harvard’s Pathetic”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041013151543/http://offthefence.typepad.com/off_the_fence/2004/09/harvards_pathet.html

Life, Liberty, and Property, “Laurence H. Tribe – Plagiarist”
http://www.dr5.org/mt/archives/000713.html


AFF’s Brainwash, "Plagiarism at Harvard"
https://web.archive.org/web/20041103161231/http://www.affbrainwash.com/chrisroach/archives/014669.php


TalkLeft
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/008051.html


CRONACA
"Harvard plagiarism mess"
http://www.cronaca.com/archives/002815.html


Crooow Blog
"Tribe admits plagiarism"
https://web.archive.org/web/20041127154616/http://tvh.rjwest.com/archives/005981.html


DRUDGE RETORT
"Plagiarism? What Plagiarism? I fucking hate plagiarism"
https://web.archive.org/web/20041011190020/http://www.drudge.com/weblog/4441/unfortunate_whale_speared_by_cruise_ship.html


Sept. 29
Velvel on National Affairs (Dean Lawrence Velvel), “Say it Ain’t So, Joe”

 http://velvelonnationalaffairs.blogspot.com/2004/09/say-it-aint-so-joe.html

Financial Times, “Tribe’s tribulations could hurt Kerry”http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:rFgwQn5YB9IJ:news.ft.com/cms/s/7328fc86-11b3-11d9-95dd-00000e2511c8.html+pruzan+tribe&hl=en

Guardian Unlimited, “Harvard Prof Acknowledges Lifting Passages”
http://www.politics.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4521617,00.html

Washington Times, “Law professor apologizes for plagiarism in 1985 book”
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040928-111006-3358r.htm

Arizona Daily Star, “Law professor apologizes for plagiarism”
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/41098.php

History News Network (Ralph E. Luker), “On the Wisdom of Eugene Volokh”

 http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/7617.html

News Thoughts (Mike Slaven), “A Tribe Called Theft”
https://web.archive.org/web/20050125172508/http://newsthoughts.net/wp/2004/09/29/a-tribe-called-theft/

Ethics Scoreboard, “Dershowitz Defends Plagiarism”
http://www.ethicsscoreboard.com/list/dershowitz.html

Language Log, “Plagiarism and Coincidence”
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001510.html

Rabe Ramblings, “A Tribe Called Plagiarist”
http://johnrabe.blogspot.com/2004/09/tribe-called-plagiarist.html

Flit(tm), “Beria’s Lessons for HLS”  

http://www.snappingturtle.net/jmc/tmblog/archives/004787.html

E-LawLibrary Weblog, “Citation Problems Continue at Harvard Law”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041010164357/http://www.e-lawlibrary.net/elawlibrary/2004/09/index.html

World Magazine Blog, “Comments: liberal law professor caught cheating”
http://www.worldmagblog.com/MT/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=9138

NRA-ILA In the News, “Tribe Apologizes for Plagiarism”
https://web.archive.org/web/20041028203723/http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/Inthenews.aspx?ID=4479


The Vatican of Liberalism
"Alan Dershowitz, Plagiarist?"
https://web.archive.org/web/20041019002421/http://thevaticanofliberalism.com/archives/000038.php


Sept. 30

Velvel on National Affairs (Dean Lawrence Velvel), “RE: Say It Ain’t So, Joe”
http://velvelonnationalaffairs.blogspot.com/2004/09/re-say-it-aint-so-joe.html

Center for Individual Freedom, Freedom Line
“Laurence Tribe: Plagiarist Harvard Law School Professor at Large (with Tenure)"

https://web.archive.org/web/20050313132218/http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/in_our_opinion/laurence_tribe.htm

Harvard Law Record
"News Briefs: Weekly Standard discovers uncredited passages in 19-year-old book by Prof. Tribe"
http://hlrecord.org/?p=10946


Oct. 1

The Cavalier Daily, “Punishing plagiarizing professors”
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=20756&pid=1192

Boston Globe (letter to the editor, Allan Cobb)
"Lawyers, take responsibility"


Oct. 3
Boston Globe (Marcella Bombardieri and Jenna Russell)
"Blogrolling"
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2004/10/03/does_the_sat_matter_bates_raises_questions?mode=PF



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