Law professor accused of plagiarism

June Torbati,"Law prof. borrows text for book," Yale Daily News, 4 October, exposes plagiarism in Yale Law Professor Ian Ayres' ninth book, Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart. Columbia Law School Professor Michael Dorf suggests that it isn't a plagiarism scandal so much as a ghost-writing scandal, an abuse of and by research assistants. Without their productivity, how would anyone publish three books (with University of Chicago, Yale University, and Princeton University presses) in the Spring of 2005 alone? See also: Margaret Soltan,"Plagiarism: Yours, Mine, and Ayres'," University Diaries, 8 October, which predicts that this"oligarchic corruption" will go unpunished. Hat tip.