Failure To Teach: Due Process and Law School Plagiarism.

Abstract

Law schools do not explicitly teach their students what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. Instead, most schools simply offer up a blanket prohibition buried in an honor code distributed on and forgotten after the first day of class. Theyjustify this perfunctory treatment on the basis of two assumptions: first, that students arrive at law school understanding the rules of scholarship and plagiarism, and second, that there is very little actual plagiarism by law students. Both these assumptions are fundamentally flawed. Students have not been given consistent instructions on how to avoid plagiarism, and as a result they often stumble into accidental plagiarism that may jeopardize their academic and professional careers.

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