The Department of Ill-Advised Job Titles
posted by Dan Filler
UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law has just announced the creation of a Lethal Injection Fellowship. I applaud the institutional commitment to this work – the fellow will create and manage a clearinghouse of information regarding lethal injection challenges – but the title is a bit ghoulish.
Or perhaps the discomforting title was strategic. It will certainly create some unusual interview chat as fellows go off to find their first post-fellowship position.
UPDATE: A spelling error has been corrected.
June 20, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Posted in: Capital Punishment
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spellcheck - June 20, 2007 at 3:37 pm
“Lethal Inujection”?
For goodness sake, is this what happens when you become a professor? You are writing about the inappropriateness of a title and can’t even spell it correctly?
I think you should be fired, personally.
Spellmeister - June 20, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Spellcheck, get a clue. “Inujection” is a perfectly cromulent word.
petpeeve - June 21, 2007 at 10:54 am
Using the passive voice in correcting error is a bad habit.
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