It is a legitimate concern, Professor Roach said.
And while it may help a small portion of the population with a legitimate disorder, Professor Bero admits she personally wouldn't recommend its use.
Jessica Montell, the executive director of B'Tselem, an Israeli group that monitors human rights in the occupied territories, said that even if Israel had "legitimate concerns about Professor Falk's mandate," barring his entry was "an act unbefitting of democracy".
A video that apparently shows a 4.7in sapphire screen being bent under a foot and resisting attack from a knife and keys "could well be" legitimate, according to Professor Neil Alford of the department of materials at Imperial College, London.
"Jim was central to creating something that, from then on, was too powerful and too legitimate to be stopped," Professor Heymann said yesterday.
"To have the government entering the case to defend the law certainly makes the law as interpreted look more legitimate," said Jessica Litman, a professor of copyright law at Wayne State University.
7 30 p.m., library of Ukrainian Institute: Christopher Morris, chair of philosophy department at University of Maryland, asks rhetorically, "Are there any legitimate states?" According to Professor Morris, who recognizes, say, Louis XIV (a.k.a. Monsieur Grand Fromage l'État C'est Moi) for the overreacher he was, not really.
For example, a white male department chair may need to consult with professors who have experienced sexism and racism in the classroom in order to determine whether a white male student complaint about a young Chicana professor is legitimate or not (Alcoff 2001).
"Today we're in the grips of a really remarkable explosion of pornographic imagery on the Internet, much of it quasi-legitimate," said Linda Williams, a professor of film studies at the University of California at Berkeley who has written extensively on the history of pornography.
"The United States Supreme Court is the oldest constitutional court in the world — the most respected, the most legitimate," said Charles Fried, a law professor at Harvard who served as solicitor general in the Reagan administration.
