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Direct linkLewis, Lionel S. – Academic Questions, 2005
This account of an academic lawsuit qualifies as a horror story. A mediocre minority student abuses civil rights and ADA protections to win a massive monetary award against his school on the flimsiest of evidence. Jaded lawyers for the state university represent powerless faculty defendants in court, torpidly allowing the jury to throw 50 years of…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, Court Litigation, College Faculty
