Scholars’ Right to Keep Unpublished Work Private Is at Issue in Lawsuit

by E Wayne Ross on October 13, 2009

The Chronicle: Scholars’ Right to Keep Unpublished Work Private Is at Issue in Lawsuit

In a case with potentially major implications for scholars and publishers, a Stanford University professor who often serves as an expert witness against tobacco companies is fighting an effort by lawyers for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to obtain the manuscript of his unpublished and unfinished book on that industry.