Yes, that Anita Hill: the lawyer and academic whose testimony at the 1991 confirmation hearings of the Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas became a flashpoint in political and gender history.
Fittingly so, for Nicholas Slopen, the Samuel Johnson academic whose testimony we are reading, is someone for whom books are "the centre of the world": and it's a cache of dusty letters, supposedly written by Johnson, that first draws him into the mystery.
A growing body of Congressional testimony, academic research, court cases and other evidence suggests pervasive defects, and potentially vast lawbreaking, in the securitization and foreclosure process.
Research presented in Congressional testimony, academic papers, government and private studies indicate that excessive speculation, mainly by Wall Street index-fund traders, is needlessly driving up prices, with estimates ranging up to $1 a gallon in inflated gasoline costs.
Brown has routinely criticized the value of solar in public testimony, academic journals, and opinion pieces.
His other academic articles, congressional testimony, and musings about the financial crisis can be found at his Social Science Research Network author page and at the blog New Economic Perspectives.
If COI disclosure is a good idea, and I think that it is, then it should be applied consistently across academic publishing and testimony, rather than being used as a selectively applied political bludgeon by campaigning journalists and politicians seeking to delegitimize certain academics whose work they do not like.
A brief sampling of violations — aired in court cases, Congressional testimony and academic research — include excessive fees, improper denial of loan modifications, irregularities in the packaging of mortgages and conflicts of interest that lead banks to favor foreclosures over modifications.
Testimony from academic experts is not enough.
$1.2 million is no "small measure" of funding Soon took over a million dollars from fossil fuel interests in exchange for studies which cast doubt on the CO2-climate change connection in both academic papers and congressional testimony.
