Timeline for Can a university retract a degree for actions taken after the degree is awarded?
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 1:04 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | @JeffE Or any intellectual property. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 22:06 | comment | added | JeffE | @DavidZ Abstract ideas can still be property. See, for example, your bank balance. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 18:28 | comment | added | David Z | Huh, that is... surprising. I'd always thought that in the US, the actual degree was an abstract idea, namely the fact that you successfully completed a set of requirements (subject to verification by the university registrar, if one cared to check), and that the actual piece of paper was just for show. | |
| S Sep 22, 2015 at 20:21 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Misspelled Mr. Stapel's name.
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| Sep 22, 2015 at 18:53 | comment | added | user6726 | For instance from 813 F. 2d 88 - Crook III v. Baker, “The argument is that the grant of a degree vests in the grantee a valuable property right, and the grantor, here the Regents, can no more rescind the grant than one can, without court action, rescind the sale of land or gift of personalty,” “The district court concluded that Crook's master's degree constituted an important property interest…we assume these propositions, arguendo, and accept them as givens”. In a case in 1334 involving Cambridge, CJ Pratt stated that "a man shall not be deprived of his property without being heard". | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 18:16 | comment | added | Dan Romik | That's interesting, do you happen to have a reference for the U.S. legal situation you describe (property rights etc.)? | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 17:07 | vote | accept | Sidney | ||
| Sep 22, 2015 at 17:06 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |