Questions tagged [academia]
The environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship.
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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.
Набір на навчання
Ми підготували два шляхи набору кандидатів на наші ...
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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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