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PETER BERKOWITZ: Harvard Law v. Free Inquiry: Dean Martha Minow flunks the test. By ? inaccurate?

By Glenn Reynolds

PETER BERKOWITZ: Harvard Law v. Free Inquiry: Dean Martha Minow flunks the test. By — inaccurately — recasting the student email, Minow would seem to also open herself up to a libel suit.

UPDATE: More thoughts here:

So, completely putting the race issue aside, Dean Minow?s revision suggests that she believes that people who have genetic endowments for greater-than-average intelligence are ?genetically superior? to the average person. Now that?s an ugly sentiment, though perhaps one rather comforting for someone smart enough to be dean of Harvard Law School.

But perhaps, unlike what Dean Minow did her student, we should give her the benefit of the doubt, and not use one emailed statement to condemn her, even one that, unlike the student?s email, was assumedly well thought-out and was meant for public circulation.

Ouch.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).