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Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Kermit Roosevelt III (University of Pennsylvania Law School) has posted The Indivisible Constitution (Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 25, Pg. 321, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In The Invisible Constitution, Laurence Tribe argues that many of our most deeply-held constitutional...
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IPBiz (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
An article in the Badger-Herald notes that a Professor Chad Weidner has a lawsuit against the "paper mill" R2C2 and its owner Rusty Carroll. Although one can readily see why an academic might have problems with a company that sells term papers and the like, one notes that there are similar areas wherein academics don't take such strong stands. For example, Dean Velvel suggested the Laurence...
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Bradenton.com: Politics (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... the Federalist Society recently, Alito took a couple of shots at leading liberal scholars, Laurence Tribe and Cass Sunstein, who also are closely associated with President Barack Obama.Alito said he has not yet read Sunstein's "A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before" and Tribe's "The Invisible Constitution."With a workload...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... submitted in the name of several hundred historians, was very influential. Ronald Dworkin and Laurence Tribe, for example, wrote books on abortion that relied on the brief for their historical sections. But the brief was a fraud: It falsified the sources on which it purported to rely, and it contradicted the published work of many of the signatories. (I wrote a chapter on the fraud...
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Cao's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... represented by former Solicitor General Ted Olson, a conservative, and by Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, a noted liberal. Olson and Tribe prepared a memorandum on the “natural born” question which concluded that McCain was, in fact, a natural born citizen based on: a) the place of his birth [the Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone], b) the citizenship...
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IPBiz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... As pointed out in IPBiz, Harvard Law does not have much credibility as to citation or plagiarism. Laurence Tribe plagiarized. In defending one plagiarist Harvard law prof, Alan Dershowitz noted law promotes a culture of copying. So now Ben Shapiro, Harvard law grad, is complaining he didn't get properly cited for reporting a story about what someone else did? In the patent law biz,...