Questions tagged [academia]
The environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship.
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Is it defamatory to publish nonsense under somebody else's name?
Imagine that a supposedly academic journal intentionally publishes an AI-generated article which is full of claims which are easily verifiable nonsense to any expert in the field. The article is ...
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If students use academic licenses to perform work for commercial firms, but as part of class projects, is that a license violation?
Assume that a university has a program that solicits computing projects from industry partners. These projects are directly in service of the commercial entities' businesses. The organizations may or ...
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Request for reference to an old case - Svensk juristidining, 47 (1962) 17-32, cited in Zeisel
I'm reading an article ''Trial by mathematics: precision and ritual in the legal process'' by L. Tribe published in Harvard Law Review 1971 April (link). It mentions in page 1340 an interesting ...
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Examples of misquotes resulting in costly lawsuits?
I'm looking for examples of misquotes resulting in expensive lawsuits or at least embarrassing retractions or otherwise costly or cumbersome consequences.
This includes misquotes that resulted in a ...
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Can guest authorship in academia be illegal?
This question concerns the following situation commonly arising in academic research. Research is carried out in a lab which is funded by a grant. A grant comes from taxpayer money paid by a ...
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Can a contract stop part-time employees (but not full time employees) getting a second part-time job?
I am currently considering a funded PhD post. They allow both full-time and part-time applications. They were very clear that if you do the PhD part-time, you at not allowed to do any other paid work, ...
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Do undocumented students lose their enrollment in universities if they are expelled?
In the US, undocumented students can apply to universities. If one such student is accepted and enrolled but later deported due to not being covered by DACA or other reasons, will their enrollment be ...
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Is it no longer possible for US universities to specifically support Ukrainians in admissions after SCOTUS ruling?
Here in Poland, after the invasion, universities started providing a separate admissions track to Ukrainian students.
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Are designs explained in academic publications considered to be in public domain if there isn't yet a patent application about it?
In academic journals, sometimes the new approach they describe seems so promising that companies may want to use those designs or designs made/inspired from the principles mentioned in the publication....
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Is it copyright infringement to summarize texts from a powerpoint presentation?
I have access to a powerpoint presentation as a student. These slides are part of the course content and every single slide has disclaimer at the bottom that says
@McGraw-Hill Education
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Why is it legal for professors to present out-of-date information as practical and fact, when doctors are expected to give patients the latest cures?
Why is it illegal for doctors to not give the latest cure, keep in touch with the latest cures, find everything for the patient, but professors do not lose a practicing license as a result of teaching ...
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May a UK academic employer ask the latest pay slip of my current Canadian job?
As a postdoc in a Canadian institution, I have been offered a lecturer position in UK. In the offer email I have received, one clause reads as follows:
Please could you provide evidence of your ...
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Academic or credential fraud
I recently found out that a professor in a graduate program forged diplomas and claimed to have a PhD, when in fact they do not. This professor is earning more more than other professors that ...
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Future supervisor changes author order before submitting grant application
In 2020, I started to work on a grant proposal for a 2-year postdoc. After 2 months, I was told by my prospective supervisor that the proposal was so good, that it could become a 3-year project and ...
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What intellectual property rights are being surrendered with this contract?
Alice has worked for an quango/academic organisation “The Establishment”, which is part of a larger “Wider Establishment” for some years. She was recently made redundant on pretty good terms and ...
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Does the GDPR apply to reference managers?
Reference managers are software products that record the details of scientific papers that one interacts with. All academics and many others use them as a crucial tool of their work. Common examples ...
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A lawyer with an E&E Engineering Degree with no Background in Intellectual Property
I am a lawyer with an E&E Engineering Degree and want to do Intellectual Property work online (Upwork & Fiverr) however I have no experience in the field. I want to learn as much as possible ...
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Is this an example of first amendment being violated in a public university in the US?
A while ago, a graduate school official in a public university in the US sent me this email message:
Obtaining permissions and approvals - If you have co-authors or co-researchers you must ask their ...
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Being asked to start teaching before being employed as a new faculty
Suppose that a non-US person F is scheduled to join a US university as a teaching-focused faculty member. F's official starting is set to be January 4th and, at that university, classes start in the ...
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Are gender-quotas lawful for academic funding bodies in the UK?
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I am an academic, working in an interdisciplinary field. The UK's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is a United Kingdom government agency which funds research into health and ...
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Alabama: College refusing to award Minor due to unclear/vague wording in policy
Location: Alabama, USA.
I have recently completed all coursework required for my degree, including a cluster in (name changed) Basketweaving. A cluster consists of 6 specified courses (it is ...
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What are the legal ramifications of using Post Nominal Letters from a degree mill?
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This question was sparked by a question about firing an employee with a B.A. from a degree mill
To my knowledge, using protected post nominal letters that are related to a professional ...
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Studying European legislation after Brexit
I am reading the book "Legal Skills" by Emily Finch and Stefan Fafinski. I reached the section on EU legislation. Although this book is a new edition, it was written when the UK was still a ...
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Is PI legally allowed to require their PhD student/Post-docs to pick up their kids from school?
Assuming that I'm a PhD student/Post-doc, what kind of tasks are the principal investigator(PI) - i.e the group leader - legally allowed to ask me to perform?
For example, is s/he legally allowed to ...
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May an employer legally terminate a contract, should the planned funding supporting that contract cease to exist?
A Canadian university issues job offers for its post-doctoral fellows according to a template in which one reads:
This appointment is a term appointment from [date] to [date], and is
funded, at least ...
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Misrepresenting Academic Credential [closed]
In one of her TEDx Talks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQTUtBJE5fs), a Stanford professor of Math Education, Jo Boaler, claimed to be a "mathematician" when in fact, her work lies solely ...
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How to refer to Supreme Court cases by just one name
I'm writing a paper for my high school U.S. History class, and I want to refer to certain Supreme Court cases by just one name after my first naming of the case (for example, I want to refer to Rucho ...
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Academic Use of Microsoft Software
I'm hoping to use software from the Windows 10 Operating System in an academic research project. I'm struggling to understand some of the wording in the terms found here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-...
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Am I able to use textbook questions, for commercial purpose in India?
There is a demand for solutions of textbook questions, whose solution manuals are not available online.
Let's say I want to start a business creating banks of answers to the questions in these ...
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Negligent supervision in a Canadian graduate university program - legal remedy?
The Faculty of Graduate Studies handbook at my Canadian university provides clear guidelines for what supervisors and committees are expected to do. The supervisor in question has been delinquent with ...
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What laws would be broken if a university professor accepted money in exchange for better grades?
Suppose a student in an ordinary university offered $100 to his professor (or Teaching Assistant) in exchange for a five percentage point improvement in his grade. Suppose the professor/TA accepted it ...
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Is it legal to advertise private paid labor over academic email?
Is it legal for a public university employee to advertise private paid labor over an academic email sent to other university employees?
Would this issue be university-specific, in the US, or is there ...
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Are there legal barriers to academic departments in the US choosing to act themselves in cases of sexual harassment or related incidents?
My understanding of Title IX is that it is a federal law that requires, among other organizations, universities, to ensure that women are not denied equal opportunities.
In order to ensure ...
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Outsourcing papers and other homework and screen sharing to India?
There are two cheating scenarios
1) In person
2) Online
How are these cheating scenarios treated differently in academia?
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Does printing several journal articles for a friend run afoul of copyright law?
I am a graduate student. For a fellow graduate student's upcoming birthday, I wanted to give him a collection of seminal papers in his field. The idea was to print a collection of 10 papers, totaling ...
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To achieve ECTS credits at my school a student is forced to drop his/her right of privacy
Some background about the situation:
I attend a vocational university (university of applied sciences)
I live in the Netherlands - Europe
We have a mandatory activity that provides us with ECTS ...
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May a college remove a degree plan without letting students graduate without that degree?
I attended an art school that is part of the UT System, and they removed my degree plan a year after I joined and started removing the classes required to graduate. They informed that I would be able ...
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Can a professor patent and license a technology if the development used software with non-commerical license?
Suppose a professor or student at a university uses software like Rosetta (a protein folding software) for their research. Rosetta has free academic licenses as well as paid commercial licenses ...
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What copyright terminology do I need to include in my thesis (for a new encryption algorithm)?
I'm about to publish a thesis on a new encryption algorithm I devised, and was told by my Committee Chair that I would need to include:
A copyright page - to safeguard my work from being patented by ...
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"Reading up" law?
I am currently taking an undergraduate Introduction to International Law course. In an email to the students regarding an upcoming case brief, my professor clarified that one part of the rationale ...
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How do I calculate damages for educational misconduct?
I have an issue with my university.
After 3 years of PhD research, I have presented to my examiners a out-of-format interdisciplinary research, as agreed with my supervisor. Unfortunately, my ...
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Is modifying an academic transcript illegal?
On my University of Washington unofficial transcript, it says
ANY ALTERATION OR MODIFICATION OF THIS RECORD OR ANY COPY THEREOF MAY CONSTITUTE A FELONY AND/OR LEAD TO STUDENT DISCIPLINARY ...
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Can I terminate an employee for qualifying for a job through a "degree mill?"
We have recently put together an HR unit, which reviewed all our employees and found that one has an unsatisfactory qualification (BA in Public Relations from an unaccredited college). HR suggested ...
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GDPR vs. Copyright for a recommendation letter
Spurred by a discussion on academia.se: suppose prof. X writes a letter of recommendation for her student mr. Y, and sends it to university Z through an on-line system. Then, the student mr. Y writes ...
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Can this be considered as a case of fraud?
I recently got into an argument regarding whether submitting the following letter to an instituition could be regarded as a fraud:
To Whomsover It May Concern
This is to certify that X is pursuing ...
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Banning person from a city
Suppose a UK university allows students to intermit for a year, and then return to continue their studies on the basis that they do not enter the city in which the university is based during that time....
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Can academics break the law with their research?
Are there any U.S. or U.K. laws that prevent academic research papers or journals from being published? Can academics outline the methodology of illegal activities?
For example, could a computer ...
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What automatic citation/bibliography programs are well-designed for law papers?
I have tried Mendeley for citations and bibliography for writing law papers at my university, but it seems not to be designed for legal citations.
For example, when I want to add a Case file as an ...
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What type of lawyer would I need to help me deal with issues of academic misconduct?
What can stop a university from doing whatever they want and screwing students over in terms of accusing them of cheating, plagiarism, or a misunderstanding of professor authorization of essay re-...
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What type of lawyer (criminal, civil, family, etc.) would I need to help me deal with issues of academic misconduct? [duplicate]
What can stop a university from doing whatever they want and screwing students over in terms of accusing them of cheating, plagiarism, or a misunderstanding of professor authorization of essay re-...
