Ghostwriting by federal judges (a way to violate disclosure rules) as the opposite of plagiarism.

We’re used to seeing plagiarism in public life—Joe Biden’s the most famous culprit, but there are also various German politicians, as well as Harvard law professor and almost-Supreme-Court-judge Laurence Tribe. Some Yale law professors too, I think. And lots of … Continue reading

A lesson from the Charles Armstrong plagiarism scandal: Separation of the judicial and the executive functions

[updated link] Charles Armstrong is a history professor at Columbia University who, so I’ve heard, has plagiarized and faked references for an award-winning book about Korean history. The violations of the rules of scholarship were so bad that the American … Continue reading

Relaxed plagiarism standards as a way to keep the tuition dollars flowing from foreign students

Interesting comment thread at Basbøll’s blog regarding the difficult position of college writing instructors when confronted with blatant student plagiarism. Randall Westgren writes: I believe the easiest part of the patchwriting [plagiarism] phenomenon to understand is why writing instructors are … Continue reading