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Peter Berkowitz is all bruised ego
He was turned down for tenure at Harvard and then pursued one of the longest tenure suits in history in a quixotic attempt to get reinstated.
A few of his charges had something vaguely resembling a point: tenure processes aren't very transparent, and a standard review procedure is a good thing. But most of them were just whining and special pleading.
He lost at the state appellate level in a smackdown, which sent him whimpering off to the Hoover Institution for wingnut welfare:
The appeals court ruling issued June 6 found that the Faculty handbook’s “language and structure could create no reasonable expectation to support the plaintiff’s interpretation.” It agreed with the docket committee’s decision that Berkowitz’s claim regarding the lack of experts in his field of study on the ad hoc committee—which examined his case for tenure—was without merit.
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