Research misconduct is common among the faculty in elite universities. I've pointed out some of it here. When are we going to hear what happens to the others?
Or was Claudine Gay singled out because of her (admittedly bad) testimony before Congress?
thecrimson.com/article/2024/1… Read here about how another Harvard president sent a team of economics professors over to Russia, only for them to trade stocks for their personal benefit while doing nothing to help Russia.
Corruption eventually brought about the rise of Putin.
institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btfpi…

This $2 billion payout for Jared Kushner sure looks like a kickback for the $110 billion arms deal Kushner orchestrated from the White House.
@TheJusticeDept needs to investigate NOW.
nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/… Duncan MacIntosh at a conference funded in part by Lockheed-Martin says selling arms to wealthy nations advances moral progress because being wealthy “tends to go hand in hand with being a morally better culture and one that ought therefore to prevail.”
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philpapers.org/rec/MACTSA-26

I have communications from a retired Harvard professor talking about his lobbying the admissions director to get his grandson in (successfully). What did the Supreme Court do about that kind of affirmative action? Harvard admissions has been a cesspool of favoritism for over a century. But affirmative action for discriminated against minorities is now illegal. Whatever ….

Avoision Man: Act II.
@NormEisen and @RWPUSA on how Ron DeSantis could be as bad as the former guy on law avoision.

DeSantis, Trump, and the Rule of Law | Opinion newsweek.com/desantis-trump… Tax avoision as explained on The Simpsons:

According to the complaint @UVA's Title IX office found that a professor used his J Term course The Holocaust and the Law to sexually assault and harass a student repeatedly, including in a Vienna hotel room. @UVA covered it up and let him quietly retire.
wdbj7.com/2023/05/30/alu… Here's the complaint. I have no first hand knowledge of the facts, but if the @UVA administrators let this professor retire and covered it up after @UVA Title IX investigation findings of repeated sexual assault and harassment, they should all be fired. drive.google.com/file/d/1YToC44…

What's going on with this lawsuit?
Laura Beny is the most well known law and economics scholar at @UMichLaw. The dean sent her these kinky emails. According to the complaint he then retaliated against her.
Trumper law firm Jones Day is defending.
abovethelaw.com/2022/09/top-la… Res ipsa loquitur?
campusreform.org/article?id=172…

The law on sexual harassment is messed up in Japan. No wonder I've been getting so much grief from American academics (all men of course) who deem themselves experts on the law and economics of sex in Japan.
nytimes.com/2023/05/29/wor… The "law and economics" of a contract for sex with a 10 year old girl?
Come on guys.....
english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_e…

Colleagues covering for colleagues.
That's no way to run the Supreme Court, or any office for that matter.
Congress has a right to know what's going on.
cnn.com/2023/04/25/pol… Anyone who has worked in a law firm or taught in a law school knows that colleagues almost never rat out colleagues. Most won't even criticize colleagues.
Why should we expect the Supreme Court to be any different? The Court needs an ethics lawyer AND an inspector general.

What kind of a public university Board of Regents hands a president a $260K golden parachute as a reward for going to work for a competitor? Meanwhile tuition is off the charts.
Regent @darrinrosha explains the utter incompetence here on @KSTP.
kstp.com/kstp-news/top-… With Ken Powell as chair of the @UMNews Board of Regents, we know the top brass will get a big payday. He plastered the Minnesota legislature with campaign contributions to get on the Board, and it's been a disaster ever since.
startribune.com/pay-watch-gene…

Amazing. Minnesota political operatives are plotting to appoint yet another corporate CEO to the @UMNews Board of Regents to bust unions, and raise tuition. What a mess.
mnagainstwheeler.org Who in the Minnesota legislature will vote to elect to the Board of Regents of @UMNews a former CEO of Allina Health who made millions in salary off of billing patients while busting unions?
@MinnesotaDFL will say no for sure (unless they really hate unions).
@mngop?

Here former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson points out a problem with many university administrators in America. They raise tuition, turn a blind eye to scandals, ignore students and let irresponsible administrators and coaches do whatever they want.
omny.fm/shows/chad-har… Just one example I'm all too familiar with: Since 2019 Gabel knew about sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation in @UMN_Music, but did absolutely nothing. This is one more problem that could have been solved, but instead is now in litigation.

Colleagues covering for colleagues.
Mike Pence here covers for Trump whose actions one day almost killed him.
cnn.com/videos/politic… Now is the time for Republicans, as many did with Nixon in 1974, to defend the rule of law, rather than defend colleagues who violate the law. So far that's not happening.

New York is not a money laundromat. Falsifying business records in New York to conceal another crime, including a violation of federal election law, is a felony. Doesn't matter who you are. Do the crime, do the time.
law.justia.com/codes/new-york… It's legal to have sex with a porn star.
It's probably legal to pay her $130K to keep her mouth shut.
But if you do that while running for president, that's a campaign expense and must be reported.
If you falsify business records to avoid reporting it you commit a felony.

This is tragic.
Wingard did more than most university presidents, and much more than the president of @UMNews, to fight campus crime, but he still got fired. American cites need better gun laws and better law enforcement.
phillyvoice.com/temple-preside… Who decides the gun laws in your state?
Who owns the legislature?
I wrote this 11 years ago, and not much has changed.
nytimes.com/2012/12/20/opi…

Advocating assassination of a federal judge is not free speech.
This man belongs in the slammer, along with the people threatening Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Enough!
mol.im/a/11909613 via @MailOnline I see one crazy blogger on "academic freedom" is saying that this man did not advocate murder of people he disagrees with.
But one can't read his post any other way.
The same guy said many legal experts don't believe racism was involved in the murder of George Floyd. Crazy.

DA Bragg is right.
New York is not a laundromat for corrupt money.
Falsifying business records in New York to conceal evidence of a federal election crime, or any other crime, is a felony.
nytimes.com/2023/03/21/nyr… As @TuckerCarlson fans the flames saying hush money is legal some academics take his bait and pontificate on the irrelevant.
Lots of talk here about noncriminal contracts (even a case over a "baby fair").
No mention of Trump's federal election law crime.
slate.com/news-and-polit…

Employment law 101: It's hard to get a discrimination suit dismissed when a dean sends a professor an email telling her how hot she is, particularly if later he docks her pay.
law360.com/articles/15811… Emails law deans should never send....
abovethelaw.com/2022/09/top-la…

Wasteful spending at @UMNews is out of control, and very little of it supports teaching. Million dollar a year executives, massive legal fees due to legal noncompliance and litigation, athletics scandals and more. The Board of Regents is a mess.
startribune.com/the-university… The President and Board of Regents of @UMNews sold the chancellorship of the Duluth campus to a utility company lobbyist who was also on the Board. Now they want more money from the state legislature?
kstp.com/kstp-news/top-…

This "mismatch" theory is just plain stupid.
All the data shows is that minority law students may be disproportionately disadvantaged when faculty at some "elite" law schools don't know how to teach.
abajournal.com/news/article/l… via @ABAJournal In other words, some professors waste time in class teaching theoretical nonsense (including perhaps "mismatch theory") instead of actual law, so some students do poorly on the bar exam (which is largely multiple choice like the LSAT).

What's this? The Amy Wax theory of corporate finance?

vice.com/en/article/xgw… via @motherboard "I’m not saying 12 white men would have avoided this mess, but the company may have been distracted by diversity demands" he writes. Huh?
If 11 white men can't hire a one black person and stay solvent at the same time, perhaps they shouldn't be in the banking business.

"Without [even more] state aid, the University could see between a 6.5% and a 7.5% increase in tuition rates at the Twin Cities campus."
Huh?
The University President gets over $1 million a year.
Tuition must be frozen and salaries brought under control.
mndaily.com/?p=275904 They also spend millions on lawyers on stupid cases. They are now in court defending the "academic freedom" of a music school director who looked under a female professor's skirt, told other men what he saw, and then wrote a nasty 10 page letter for her promotion file. Nuts.