It’s Not What You Know, But Who
The St Petersburg Times has this article about Victoria Dawson, the legal writing director at Florida A & M University’s law school. Seems her students are wondering how she ever got her job.
One focus of the article is a paper that Dawson wrote titled “Environmental Dispute Resolution: Developing Mechanisims for Effective Transnational Enforcement of International Environmental Standards.”
Seems the article is just chock full of nonsense like this:
He consulted with government officials and he sent his general manager of asset management representative repeatedly crossed the creek to negotiate with village leaders of Ugborodo during the women’s 10-day occupation.
This inherent conflict between economic development and environmental protection needs and interest and the focus of managing environmental disputes for sustainable results is the cause of a 10-day delay in productions and obligations.
International environmental disputes can involve parties who hold very strong feelings that they are right and other parties are wrong present unique challenges if fundamental values are in conflict.
8 June 2007 at 9:22
If you gathered all the errors I made in 15 years of practice and consolidated them into one article, I might not look so good, either. Then again, if a single paper is “chock full” of things like this . . .
If it were a law review article, I suppose she could have blamed it on the editors. But she’s going to have a hard time wriggling out of this, since she is (at least theoretically) the last proofreader of a paper she submitted. And who knows how much more is out there?
8 June 2007 at 9:57
Like I said, it’s not always what you know, . . . .
The article suggests that her students don’t respect her. That might be misleading, but let’s assume her students really dislike her.
She must be doing something wrong to lose their respect like that. Students aren’t like to charge a teacher with such incompetence without reason.