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Justin Jos's avatar

I know of someone who publishes several articles per year in law. This person is currently a PhD student and continues to publish quite incessantly. I noticed that they always co author. I have suspicions that undergrad level student work is being converted to journal articles in exchange of coauthorship. It made me wonder to what extent have we gone that ECRs are also trying to shore up their numbers by possibly exploiting someone below the chain. To people who produce several articles per year - how is your innovative ? One cannot just keep producing ideas out of thin air especially in Law where everything moves slowly.

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Ronaldo's avatar

Maybe I missed it, but yours seems like a level head, so maybe you can point me in the right direction. What exactly was so abhorrent about their responses that it would merit irreconcilable shame? The questions themselves were incendiary and their parameters were absurd. Free speech is a tricky topic and boundary between freedom of speech and harassment is indeed context dependent. They repeatedly said this, and when pressed for the "right" answer they gave variations of this. For some "From the river to sea" is a call for genocide, is this speech prohibited? The entire inquisition-sorry, hearing- was done in terrible faith and its hard to take any of it seriously. Sure, one may fault the presidents for not handling the absurd questions more expertly. How did this inform better freedom of speech policies? What did we learn, except that circuses are a favorite and effective tool of the political arm?

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