Charles Ogletree

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Charles Ogletree is a law professor at Harvard Law School and the author of numerous books on legal topics. He was named one of America’s 100 Most Influential Lawyers by the National Law Journal in 2000 and one of the 100 Most Influential Blacks in America by Savoy Magazine in 2003.^[1] In addition, he has appeared as a moderator in multiple television debates for the Public Broadcasting Service^[2] and has authored opinion pieces on the state of race in the United States for major publications.^[3]

1 Criticism
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[edit] Criticism

Ogletree has been accused of plagiarism in the past. The accusation centered around the use of three pages of Yale scholar Jack M. Balkin's book, What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, in Ogletree's All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education. Ogletree himself claims that the error arose from the "pressure of meeting a deadline" and through a lack of oversight on his part in the composition of the book, which he left mainly to his assistants. Both the alleged methods used to write the book and the plagiarism itself have received criticism from Harvard writers and the legal community. It was the third such alleged plagiarism from a Harvard law professor in two years.^[1]^[4]^[5]