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Robynmarie
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Is anyone else watching this on CSPAN?
Chuck D is preaching now. |
Libralind2
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I watched the entire thing..Chuck was off the hook as well as Juila Hare. I enjoyed all the speakers. I LOVE Olgetree, Bennett, Cornell..
LiLi
Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Vice Dean for the Clinical Programs, is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law. Professor Ogletree has examined these issues not only in the classroom, on the Internet and in the pages of prestigious law journals, but also in the everyday world of the public defender in the courtroom and in public television forums where these issues can be dramatically revealed. Armed with an arsenal of facts, Charles Ogletree presents and discusses the challenges that face our justice system and its attempt to deliver equal treatment to all our citizens. He furthers dialogue by insisting that the justice system protect rights guaranteed to those citizens by law.
In 1998, Professor Ogletree was awarded the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law chair at Harvard Law School. He holds honorary doctorates of law from North Carolina Central University, New England School of Law, Tougaloo College, Amherst College, Wilberforce University, and the University of Miami School of Law.
Professor Ogletree earned an M.A. and B.A. (with distinction) in Political Science from Stanford University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School where he served as Special Projects Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review.
Charles Ogletree began his illustrious career as a staff attorney in the District of Columbia Public Defender Service. He quickly rose through the ranks serving as Training Director, Trial Chief, and Deputy Director of the Service before entering private practice in 1985 in the law firm of Jessamy, Fort & Ogletree. Professor Ogletree is formerly "of Counsel" to the Washington, D.C. firm of Jordan, Keys & Jessamy.
Professor Ogletree is the author of the forthcoming book, All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education, published by W.W. Norton & Company, to be released in April of 2004 (www.alldeliberatespeed.com). He is the co-author of the award-winning book, Beyond the Rodney King Story: An Investigation of Police Conduct in Minority Communities, and he frequently contributes to the Harvard Law Review, among other publications. He has written chapters in several books, including If You Buy the Hat, He Will Come, in Faith of Our Fathers: African American Men Reflect on Fatherhood and The Tireless Warrior for Racial Justice, which appears in Reason & Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence. Privileges and Immunities for Basketball Stars and Other Sport Heroes? appears in Basketball Jones, published in 2000. In addition, Professor Ogletree's commentaries on a broad range of timely and important issues have appeared in the editorial pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other national newspapers. His commentary on how to make Black America better was published in the 2001 compilation, Lift Every Voice and Sing. Most recently, Professor Ogletree has contributed a chapter entitled The Rehnquist Revolution in Criminal Procedure, which appears in The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right, published in 2002.
In 1991, Professor Ogletree served as Legal Counsel to Professor Anita Hill during the Senate Confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas. His reflections on those experiences are contained in The People vs. Anita Hill: The Case for Client-Centered Advocacy, a chapter of the book, Race, Gender and Power in America. He was profiled in an article in The American Lawyer entitled, Tree Time. More recently, Professor Ogletree was prominently featured in award-winning author Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot's compelling book, I've Known Rivers, and in a Boston Globe magazine article entitled, Faith in the System.
In 2003, he was selected by Savoy Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Blacks in America and by Black Enterprise Magazine, along with Thurgood Marshall, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., and Constance Baker Motley, as one of the legal legends among America's top black lawyers. In 2002, he received the National Bar Association's prestigious Equal Justice Award. In 2001, he joined a list of distinguished jurists, including former Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, and civil rights lawyers Elaine Jones and Oliver Hill, when he received the prestigious Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit from the Washington Bar Association. He also held the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics at the University of Oregon Law School and was a Scholar in Residence at Stanford University. In 2000, Professor Ogletree was selected by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America. He has received numerous awards, including the National Conference on Black Lawyers People's Lawyer of the Year Award, the Man of Vision Award from the Museum of Afro-American History in Boston, the 1993 Albert Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence at Harvard Law School, and in 1995, The Ellis Island Medal of Honor and The Ruffin-Fenwick Trailblazer Award named in honor of the first African-American man and woman to graduate from Harvard Law School. In 1996, the National Bar Association honored him with its Presidential Award for The Renaissance Man of the Legal Profession. He was also awarded the International House of Blues Foundation Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major Award, The Justice Louis Brandeis Medal for Public Service, and the 21st Century Achievement Award from the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts.
In addition to his strong academic focus, Charles Ogletree's national media experience and exposure is considerable in its scope. In 2001 and 2002, Professor Ogletree moderated the nationally-televised forums, State of the Black Union and Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, produced by Tavis Smiley Productions. Professor Ogletree also served as the moderator of four of producer Fred Friendly's seminal ten-part series, Ethics in America, which aired on PBS. Since 1990, he has moderated dozens of similar programs, including Hard Drugs, Hard Choices, Liberty & Limits: Whose Law, Whose Order? and Credibility in the Newsroom. Professor Ogletree has also appeared as a guest commentator on Nightline, This Week with David Brinkley, McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, Crossfire, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Cochran & Company, Burden of Proof, and Meet the Press as well as other national and local television and radio programs. He served as NBC legal commentator on the O.J. Simpson case.
Professor Ogletree also serves as the Co-Chair of the Reparations Coordinating Committee, a group of lawyers and other experts researching a lawsuit based upon a claim of reparations for descendants of African slaves, along with Randall Robinson, co-author of The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks.
Professor Ogletree has a long record of commitment and service to public schools and higher education. He completed ten years of service to his alma mater, as a member of the Stanford University Board of Trustees, and for five years served as the national Chairman of the Stanford Fund, the University's principal fund raising organization. Professor Ogletree's development activities have also raised substantial funds for Harvard Law and the UDC, where he currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia, a land grant and historically black college and university. He continues to serve as the Chairman of the Board of the B.E.L.L. Foundation, which is committed to educating minority children in after school programs in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. In addition, Professor Ogletree served as one of the founding members and trustee of the Benjamin Banneker Charter School in Cambridge, a school that provides educational opportunities in math, science and technology to minority children in a public school setting. Professor Ogletree attended public schools in his hometown of Merced, California, and has set up a scholarship fund there that now annually provides support for needy students who want to pursue higher education. He has also provided scholarship support for students at Harvard Law School, Stanford University, and the University of the District of Columbia.
Professor Ogletree has been married to his fellow Stanford graduate, Pamela Barnes, since 1975. They are the proud parents of two children, Charles Ogletree III and Rashida Ogletree. The Ogletree's live in Cambridge and are members of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Cynique
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I watched some of it. But it started to become an exercise in musical chairs with everyone competing to see who could find a different way to say the same ol thing. Racism rules. Sell-outs sell out, yada, yada, yada. |
Robynmarie
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Didn't Ogletree get caught plagerizing?
Yes, it was all about entertainment. Tavis looked like he gained his weight back. I admire and respect Taavis alot, but there is a coldness about him that is disturbing. Probably because his parents tortured him when he was a kid. |
Libralind2
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Ogletree Faces Discipline for Copying Text
Published On 9/13/2004 12:00:00 AM
By STEPHEN M. MARKS
Crimson Staff Writer
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.
Ogletree said in a phone interview last week that he will be disciplined, but would not say how. Armini wrote that it is school policy not to comment on disciplinary action.
Bok told the Boston Globe last Thursday that the use of Balkin’s material appeared to be an accident, partially caused by publisher W.W. Norton’s insistence on a “very tight deadline.”
“There was no deliberate wrongdoing at all,” Bok said. “He marshaled his assistants and parceled out the work and in the process some quotation marks got lost.”
Bok did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Ogletree accepts “full responsibility” for the errors, he said in his statement, which was posted on the HLS website.
“I made a serious mistake during the editorial process of completing this book, and delegated too much responsibility to others during the final editing process,” he said. “I was negligent in not overseeing more carefully the final product that carries my name.”
Ogletree said in the interview that he first learned of the issue when Balkin, tipped off by an anonymous letter, called him. Kagan also received an anonymous letter reporting the issue, Ogletree said.
But Ogletree told The Crimson that he had not read the passage of Balkin’s book that appears in his own work. An assistant inserted the material into a manuscript and intended for another assistant to summarize the passage, according to Ogletree’s statement. The first assistant inadvertently dropped the end quote, and the second assistant accidentally deleted the attribution to Balkin before sending a draft to the publisher.
When the draft returned, Ogletree did not realize that it was not his material, he said in the statement.
But Ogletree said he was closely involved in most of the drafting of the book due to its personal nature.
“The story substantially relies on my own personal perspectives and observations, and how Brown has influenced my life,” he said.
Russell Capone, an HLS student who assisted Ogletree with the book, said that he was not involved with the passage under scrutiny.
“Nonetheless, knowing Professor Ogletree and his work, any speculation that anyone knew of the repetition of Professor Balkin’s material beforehand would, frankly, be outrageous and even libelous,” Capone wrote in an e-mail.
The copied material begins Chapter 16, entitled “Meeting the Educational Challenges of the Twenty-first Century.” The two-page passage details desegregation efforts in recent decades.
Ogletree said that after reviewing the matter, he contacted Balkin to apologize.
“He has been incredibly gracious throughout the process,” Ogletree said of Balkin.
W.W. Norton publicity director Louise Brockett said that they have inserted an errata sheet explaining the attribution in all books that remain in their warehouse. She added that future printings, including the paperback due out next spring, will properly attribute the material.
She said the error was “impossible for us to detect,” because the copied passage was properly footnoted, and Norton found the footnotes to be accurate. Ogletree informed his Norton editor as soon as he discovered the missing attribution, Brockett said.
“Norton did check every footnote to the book,” she said. “You wouldn’t have any other way of knowing unless you had read Balkin’s book and had an exceptional memory.”
Brockett said she thinks errors of this nature occur “from time to time throughout the industry,” although she couldn’t recall another example involving Norton.
Clark and Balkin could not be reached for comment by phone or e-mail.
Ogletree is a prominent national figure on racial and criminal issues and has written multiple books. He helped represent Anita Hill in her lawsuit against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and has led a lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants and survivors of the 1921 race riot in Tulsa. The National Law Journal has named him one America’s 100 Most Influential Lawyers in 2000 and Savoy Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential Blacks in America in 2003.
—Staff writer Stephen M. Marks can be reached at marks@fas.harvard.edu.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503341 |
Robynmarie
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I am sorry I have no sympathy for Ogletree. And to blame underpaid assistants is reprehensible.
Especially since universities come down like a ton of bricks on students who plagerize. All papers, thesis, etc go through an online filter to see if phrases, words or sentences have been lifted from other work. Ogletree should know better.
It is more than a matter of "quotation marks". What about a damn a footnote? |
Yukio
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be that as I may, he is an important African American who has for many, many years defended the rights of black people... |
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