Former President Joseph Robinette Biden was caught plagerizing 5 pages of a paper he submitted as a first-year law student in 1965.
Syracuse University Law School initially failed him for plagiarizing, without citation, five pages from a published law review article.
The law review in question was Tortious Acts as a Basis for Jurisdiction in Products Liability Cases, which was published in the Fordham Law Review of May 1965. Biden drew large parts of legal language directly from it, including “The trend of judicial opinion in various jurisdictions has been that the breach of an implied warranty of fitness is actionable without privity, because it is a tortious wrong upon which suit may be brought by a non-contracting party,” The New York Times reported at the time. Biden only included one footnote to that article in his paper.
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