March 9, 2001

Academic Fraud Is Charged at Toronto Law School; Fulbright Scholar Is Accused of Spying in Russia

Academic fraud or civil disobedience?

The University of Toronto is investigating allegations that 30 or more law students falsified grades submitted to prospective employers -- and that a law professor counseled them to do it. But others suggest that the falsification might have been a form of civil disobedience.

Early this year, the law faculty investigated rumors that first-year law students had provided inflated grades to law firms as a way of getting summer jobs. After

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