Talk:David Campbell (legal academic)

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[edit] This article needs informed revision

Clearly, contributors have not read David Campbell's work at any level of depth when they claim he is centre-right.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.5.64.39 (talk) 16:07, 22 August 2006

Boy, does it ever "[need] informed revision". I dunno abt his politics, but i removed this absurd and unsourced 21-month old sentence, whose intended meaning is knowable (at most) by one editor who was a Wikipedian for 1 minute:
As his research shows, he sees contract law in the context of a free market and much of his research involves law and economics theory.
As it stands, it says he was the subject of his own research, since its results were information about
his perceptions of the context of law, and
what his own research involved.
It does seem clear that the author believed that Campbell thinks that the relationship between contract law and free markets is important, but even that is unsourced. I think it would be presumptuous to try to say more without having a more coherent, and preferably more reliable, source to cite. My replacement is
He emphasizes the relationship he preceives between contract law and free markets.

--Jerzy•t 04:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy over his head-of-dept role

I removed to here

Since then more than ten staff members have left Durham for other insitutions. They have been replaced with new academics.

which is clearly intended as evidence of his criticism-worthy performance. There are 2 related reasons to remove it:

  1. In the vacuum of no info on the size of the dept, the student/faculty ratio, the age and experience profiles of its "staff", (Is that British for "faculty"? Where i come from, "staff" means "employees other than administrators, student assistants, and instructional employees".) and typical British academic career trajectories and s/f ratios, readers can make no use of the information w/o extensive research on their own.
  2. The judgment that this (unsourced, but presumable) fact is relevant is WP:PoV/WP:OR in the spirit of WP:SYN.

If critics (preferably the review body that criticized him) cited resignations, document the role of that the controversy, but lose the bare fact.
--Jerzy•t 05:10, 18 January 2008 (UTC)