Charles Ogletree Faces Discipline for Copying Text
A Harvard Law School (HLS) professor admitted that six paragraphs in his newest book came almost verbatim from another professor's work, in a mistake he attributes to two assistants. Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr. apologized for what he calls "serious errors" in his book All Deliberate Speed in a Sept. 3 statement, following an investigation by former Harvard President Derek C. Bok and former HLS Dean Robert C. Clark. Clark and Bok reported their findings that the passage was lifted from Yale Professor Jack M. Balkin's 2001 collection of essays, What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, to HLS Dean Elena Kagan. Based on their report, Kagan called the matter "a serious scholarly transgression," HLS communications director Michael A. Armini wrote in an e-mail. He added that she declined to comment further.
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