But as a law review editor I can tell you that a large portion of law school faculty make similar mistakes. At least at the school I attended, the first year in law review is spent cite checking articles selected for publication. The expectation of law school faculty (the bulk of the contributors to our law review), seems to be that the editors will take care of the details so why bother. I spent way too many hours adding quotation marks, fine tuning the citation, suggesting rewording so the page wasn't just a long series of very short quotes. And - in checking a citation at the end of a paragraph I often discovered the entire paragraph was inspired by the matching paragraph in the cited article.
I would suspect that a microscopic review of the published papers of most of Harvard's faculty (or of any university) would find similar problems.
Should she be held to the same standards as everyone else? Yes. But are others being held to that standard? How many of her peers have had the microscopic review of their work? If not, why not? Is this just being used as a convenient excuse to get rid of an inconveniewnt (black female) president?
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