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42 S. Tex. L. Rev. 467 (2000-2001)
Misattribution in Legal Scholarship: Plagiarism, Ghostwriting, and Authorship

handle is hein.journals/stexlr42 and id is 487 raw text is: MISATTRIBUTION IN LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP: PLAGIARISM, GHOSTWRITING, AND AUTHORSHIP LISA G. LERMAN* I. INTROD UCTION ............................................................................ 467 II. A U TH O RSH IP ................................................................................ 472 III. PLA G IA RISM ................................................................................. 474 A . G hostw riting .......................................................................... 476 B. The Harmful Effects of Plagiarism in Legal Scholarship .476 C. How Often Do Law Professors Engage in Plagiarism ...... 479 IV. WHAT TO DO ABOUT DISHONEST LAW PROFESSORS ........... 483 V. PERPETUATING THE DOUBLE STANDARD .............................. 488 VI. STANDARDS FOR AUTHORSHIP OF LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP .... 489 V II. C ONCLU SION ................................................................................ 491 Plagiarize, let no one else's work evade your eyes, Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize- Only be sure always to call it please research.' I. INTRODUCTION Plagiarism is a capital offense for law students. A law student who uses the words or ideas of someone else without proper attribution may be suspended or expelled from law school.2 This * Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Public Policy Program, The Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC; B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, 1976; J.D., New York University School of Law, 1979; LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, 1984. 1. Tom Lehrer, Lobachevsky. 2. E.g., Easley v. Univ. of Mich. Bd. of Regents, 906 F. 2d 1143, 1143-46 (6th Cir. 1990) (affirming the court's prior decision upholding the decision of a law school to withhold a student's degree as punishment for plagiarism); In re Lamberis, 443 N.E.2d 549, 552-53 (I11. 1982) (censuring a lawyer who had been expelled from LL.M. program at Northwestern University after he was found to have plagiarized about forty-six pages of his thesis from two other works without attribution; dissent recommended a three-month suspension).

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