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In a September 2007 review of Ayres' book [[Super Crunchers]], the ''New York Times''' [[David Leonhardt]] wrote that he "came across two sentences about a doctor in Atlanta that were nearly identical to two sentences I wrote in this newspaper last year." <ref name=Leonhardt>{{cite news |last=Leonhardt |first=David |date=September 16, 2007 |title=Let’s Go to the Stats |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Leonhardt-t.html |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |accessdate=May 20, 2009 }}</ref> On October 4, the ''Yale Daily News'' reported that it had found nine passages in the book that were identical or similar to those in the ''Times'' and four other publications.<ref name=Torbati>{{cite news |last=Torbati |first=June |date=October 4, 2007 |title=Law prof. borrows text for book |url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2007/oct/04/law-prof-borrows-text-for-book/ |newspaper=Yale Daily News |location=New Haven, Connecticut |publisher= |accessdate= }}</ref> In reference to Ayres' case and a similar one at another university, [[Margaret Soltan]] said: "Both men simply stuck passages from other writers into their text when it suited them, and gave either minimal or no attribution. In some of the passages in question, neither used quotation marks, even when they quoted at length, verbatim."<ref name=Soltan>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university_diaries/plagiarism_yours_mine_and_ayres |title=Plagiarism: Yours, Mine, and Ayres' |last=Soltan |first=Margaret |date=October 8, 2007 |website=insidehighered.com |series=University Diaries |publisher=Inside Higher Ed |type=Blog |accessdate= }}</ref>
In a September 2007 review of Ayres' book [[Super Crunchers]], the ''New York Times''' [[David Leonhardt]] wrote that he "came across two sentences about a doctor in Atlanta that were nearly identical to two sentences I wrote in this newspaper last year." <ref name=Leonhardt>{{cite news |last=Leonhardt |first=David |date=September 16, 2007 |title=Let’s Go to the Stats |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Leonhardt-t.html |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |accessdate=May 20, 2009 }}</ref> On October 4, the ''Yale Daily News'' reported that it had found nine passages in the book that were identical or similar to those in the ''Times'' and four other publications.<ref name=Torbati>{{cite news |last=Torbati |first=June |date=October 4, 2007 |title=Law prof. borrows text for book |url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2007/oct/04/law-prof-borrows-text-for-book/ |newspaper=Yale Daily News |location=New Haven, Connecticut |publisher= |accessdate= }}</ref> In reference to Ayres' case and a similar one at another university, [[Margaret Soltan]] said: "Both men simply stuck passages from other writers into their text when it suited them, and gave either minimal or no attribution. In some of the passages in question, neither used quotation marks, even when they quoted at length, verbatim."<ref name=Soltan>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university_diaries/plagiarism_yours_mine_and_ayres |title=Plagiarism: Yours, Mine, and Ayres' |last=Soltan |first=Margaret |date=October 8, 2007 |website=insidehighered.com |series=University Diaries |publisher=Inside Higher Ed |type=Blog |accessdate= }}</ref>


Although Ayres and his publisher, [[Bantam Dell]], said that his endnotes were satisfactory, Ayres apologized and said: "in several brief instances in the book, my language is too close to the sourced material and I should have used quotation marks to set it apart from my text." He and his publisher promised to correct future printings.<ref name="Torbati"/> Critics were not satisfied with the explanation that Ayres had simply made a mistake, nor did they accept that such practices were acceptable in popular books. According to the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'', Columbia law professor [[Michael C. Dorf|Michael Dorf]] theorized that the "scandal" was one of research-assistant ghostwriting rather than plagiarism.<ref name="CHE">{{cite web |url=http://chronicle.com/article/Where-Plagiarism-and/43881/ |title=Where Plagiarism and Ghostwriting Intersect |last= |first= |date=October 8, 2007 |website=chronicle.com |publisher=Chronicle of Higher Education |accessdate= }}</ref> Soltan wrote that the same behavior by students is "severely sanctioned."<ref name=Soltan /> Professors at other universities were critical of Ayres' explanation and said that the method used by the ''Yale Daily News'' to discover plagiarized passages was unlikely to catch them all.<ref name=McCullough>{{cite journal |last=McCullough |first=Bruce D. |year=2008 |month=July |title=Ian Ayres's Super Crunchers is Not about Super Crunching |url=http://www.sigkdd.org/sites/default/files/issues/10-1-2008-07/V10N1-review.pdf |journal=SIGKDD Explorations |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=50-52 |doi= |accessdate= }}</ref><ref name=Soltan2>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university_diaries/plagiarism_ii_yours_mine_and_oz |title=Plagiarism II: Yours, Mine, and Oz |last=Soltan |first=Margaret |date=October 9, 2007 |website=insidehighered.com |series=University Diaries |publisher=Inside Higher Ed |type=Blog |accessdate= }}</ref><ref name=DorfonLaw>{{cite web |url=http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2007/10/harvard-law-3-yale-law-1-plagiarism-or.html |title=Harvard Law 3, Yale Law 1: Plagiarism or Ghostwriting? |last=Dorf |first=Michael |date=October 4, 2007 |website=dorfonlaw.org |publisher=Michael Dorf |type=Blog |accessdate= }}</ref>
Although Ayres and his publisher, [[Bantam Dell]], said that his endnotes were satisfactory, Ayres apologized and said: "in several brief instances in the book, my language is too close to the sourced material and I should have used quotation marks to set it apart from my text." He and his publisher promised to correct future printings.<ref name="Torbati"/> Critics were not satisfied with the explanation that Ayres had simply made a mistake, nor did they accept that such practices were acceptable in popular books. Columbia law professor [[Michael C. Dorf|Michael Dorf]] the "scandal" was one of research-assistant ghostwriting rather than plagiarism.<ref name=>{{cite web |url=http://.//-- |title= Plagiarism Ghostwriting |last= |first= |date=October , 2007 |website=. |publisher= |accessdate= }}</ref>
Soltan wrote that the same behavior by students is "severely sanctioned."<ref name=Soltan /> Professors at other universities were critical of Ayres' explanation and said that the method used by the ''Yale Daily News'' to discover plagiarized passages was unlikely to catch them all.<ref name=McCullough>{{cite journal |last=McCullough |first=Bruce D. |year=2008 |month=July |title=Ian Ayres's Super Crunchers is Not about Super Crunching |url=http://www.sigkdd.org/sites/default/files/issues/10-1-2008-07/V10N1-review.pdf |journal=SIGKDD Explorations |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=50-52 |doi= |accessdate= }}</ref><ref name=Soltan2>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university_diaries/plagiarism_ii_yours_mine_and_oz |title=Plagiarism II: Yours, Mine, and Oz |last=Soltan |first=Margaret |date=October 9, 2007 |website=insidehighered.com |series=University Diaries |publisher=Inside Higher Ed |type=Blog |accessdate= }}</ref><ref name=DorfonLaw />


==Publications==
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Revision as of 00:50, 21 March 2014

This article is about the American lawyer and economist. For the filmmaker, see Ian Ayres (filmmaker).

Ian Ayres is an American lawyer and economist. He is a professor at the Yale Law School and at the Yale School of Management.[1]

Biography

Ayres grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where he graduated from Pembroke Country Day School in 1977. He played varsity basketball, ran cross country, and served as executive editor of his high school newspaper. Ayres wrote an op-ed piece his senior year called "Black Like Me" (named for the 1961 book of the same name), a controversial piece detailing the consequences of his checking the "African- American" box for race on his PSAT, which led to consideration for academic awards.[2] Ayres graduated summa cum laude in 1981 from Yale University with a dual degree in Russian studies and economics. He then received his J.D. at Yale Law School in 1986, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.[3] He received his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988.

Career

Ayres has taught at Northwestern University School of Law, the University of Virginia School of Law, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations Cardoza Law Institute, the University of Iowa College of Law, the University of Illinois College of Law, Stanford Law School, the University of Toronto Law School, and Yale University.

Since 1994, Ayres has served as the William K. Townsend professor at the Yale Law School and is a professor at the Yale School of Management. He teaches antitrust, civil rights, commercial law, contracts, corporations, corporate finance, law and economics, property, and quantitative methods. In 2006, Ayres was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[4] and also currently serves as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and as editor of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. Ayres has previously served as a research fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has clerked for James K. Logan of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. In a post-conviction petition, Ayres was successful in vacating the death sentence for his client.[5]

Ayres has published eight books and over 100 articles in law reviews and magazines on a variety of subjects, and has been ranked as one of the 250 most prolific and most-cited legal scholars of his generation.[6]

In 2007, Ayres co-founded StickK, a web startup enabling users to enter commitment contracts to reach personal goals.

Controversy

In a September 2007 review of Ayres' book Super Crunchers, the New York Times' David Leonhardt wrote that he "came across two sentences about a doctor in Atlanta that were nearly identical to two sentences I wrote in this newspaper last year." [7] On October 4, the Yale Daily News reported that it had found nine passages in the book that were identical or similar to those in the Times and four other publications.[8] In reference to Ayres' case and a similar one at another university, Margaret Soltan said: "Both men simply stuck passages from other writers into their text when it suited them, and gave either minimal or no attribution. In some of the passages in question, neither used quotation marks, even when they quoted at length, verbatim."[9]

Although Ayres and his publisher, Bantam Dell, said that his endnotes were satisfactory, Ayres apologized and said: "in several brief instances in the book, my language is too close to the sourced material and I should have used quotation marks to set it apart from my text." He and his publisher promised to correct future printings.[8] Critics were not satisfied with the explanation that Ayres had simply made a mistake, nor did they accept that such practices were acceptable in popular books. Columbia law professor Michael Dorf asked if the "scandal" was one of research-assistant ghostwriting rather than plagiarism.[10] 

Soltan wrote that the same behavior by students is "severely sanctioned."[9] Professors at other universities were critical of Ayres' explanation and said that the method used by the Yale Daily News to discover plagiarized passages was unlikely to catch them all.[11][12][10]

Publications

Ian Ayres’ books include:

  • The $500 Diet: Weight Loss for People Who Are Committed to Change(Kindle Singles, 2011)
  • Carrots and Sticks (Bantam, 2010, ISBN 0-553-80763-3)
  • LifeCycle investing: A New, Safe, and Audacious Way to Improve the Performance of Your Retirement Portfolio, with Barry Nalebuff (Basic Books, 2010, ISBN 0-465-01829-7)
  • Studies in Contract Law, with Richard E. Speidel (Foundation Press, 2008, ISBN 1-59941-255-1)
  • Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart (Bantam, 2007, ISBN 0-553-80540-1)
  • Straightforward: How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights, with Jennifer Gerarda Brown (Princeton University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-691-12134-6)
  • Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements (University of Chicago Press, 2005, ISBN 0-226-03346-5)
  • Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent, with Gregory Klass (Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10675-0)
  • Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small, with Barry Nalebuff (Harvard Business School Press, 2003, ISBN 1-59139-153-9)
  • Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance, with Bruce Ackerman (Yale University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-300-09262-8)
  • Pervasive Prejudice?: Non-Traditional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination (University of Chicago Press, 2001, ISBN 0-226-03351-1)

Ian Ayres’ two most well-known articles are:

References

  1. ^ "Ian Ayres - Yale Law School". law.yale.edu. Yale Law School. 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  2. ^ Conniff, Richard (2004). "Flipping It". Yale Alumni Magazine. Archived from the original on February 7, 2005. Retrieved May 20, 2009. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  3. ^ "Yale Law Journal" (PDF). Yale Law School. 95 (4). 1986. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  4. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  5. ^ Ian Ayres (August 27, 2013). "About Ian Ayres". islandia.law.yale.edu/. Ian Ayres. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  6. ^ James Lindgren and Daniel Seltzer, "The Most Prolific Law Professors and Faculties," 71 CHI.-KENT L.REV.781 (1996); Fred R. Shapiro, "The Most-Cited Legal Scholars," 29 J.LEGAL STUD.409 (2000)
  7. ^ Leonhardt, David (September 16, 2007). "Let's Go to the Stats". New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2009.
  8. ^ a b Torbati, June (October 4, 2007). "Law prof. borrows text for book". Yale Daily News. New Haven, Connecticut.
  9. ^ a b Soltan, Margaret (October 8, 2007). "Plagiarism: Yours, Mine, and Ayres'". insidehighered.com (Blog). University Diaries. Inside Higher Ed.
  10. ^ a b Dorf, Michael (October 4, 2007). "Harvard Law 3, Yale Law 1: Plagiarism or Ghostwriting?". dorfonlaw.org (Blog). Michael Dorf.
  11. ^ McCullough, Bruce D. (2008). "Ian Ayres's Super Crunchers is Not about Super Crunching" (PDF). SIGKDD Explorations. 10 (1). Association for Computing Machinery: 50–52. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  12. ^ Soltan, Margaret (October 9, 2007). "Plagiarism II: Yours, Mine, and Oz". insidehighered.com (Blog). University Diaries. Inside Higher Ed.

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