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It was a Bad week for sabbaticals, after Pace University announced it would cut most sabbaticals for law professors along with a 5 to 10 percent pay cut. The cuts are part of an effort to reduce expenses by $2 million, as the school saw a $5 million deficit last year, according to a report on Brian Leiter’s blog.

Leiter reported that an anonymous faculty member said Dean David Yassky “forbade anyone from speaking to the press about this. The materials [the dean] passed out carried two watermarks, one large across the text, and another secret one (or so he said), with each faculty member’s name so he will know who the leak is, he said.” 

But another professor, Alexander Greenawalt, said “Perhaps he should have handled this distribution differently, but my honest belief is that he was acting out of a desire to be transparent rather than punitive.

In particular, I want to emphasize that there were no threats of any kind.  David did not forbid communications with the press, and indeed when asked about this he was quite clear that we were free to do what we wanted.  He did ask that we not leak the document to the press, and I think that’s a reasonable request.  

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