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Lenni Benson

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Does not meet WP:NACADEMIC. They are neither notable in their field nor have they had a major impact on legal scholarship. Cherrytxrt 📧 15:19, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related AfD discussions. Cherrytxrt 📧 15:19, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Law, Arizona, and New York. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 15:23, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
• Delete: This academic fails WP:GNG. There is nothing notable to distinguish this one from thousands of other people with the same credentials. Carajou (talk) 15:51, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
• Keep (article creator weighing in): I believe Benson's professorship, the Distinguished Chaired Professorship in Immigration and Human Rights Law, to meet WP:NPROF#C5 Vycl1994 (talk) 16:03, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

• Delete agreeing with nominator here, I don't see anything supporting WP:NACADEMIC, nor believe anything passes WP:NPROF#C5 as mentioned by article author. However, there's a few sources I do see out there that could weakly pass, but it's not necessarily enough to pass GNG.

JLN2026 (talk) 20:26, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

• Delete: I don't think the academic institution meets the requirements for her to meet WP:NPROF#C5. Harryb7 (talk) 22:54, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
• Keep: New York Law School is over 130 years old, has produced a supreme court justice and has a $240m endowment -- it is thus a major institution for C5 purposes. So next checking whether Distinguished Professor or named chair is an uncommon title there. Of the 65 faculty listed only about 8 (counted quickly) have any sort of named chair and only Benson and two others are "Distinguished." This is exactly what WP:NPROF#C5 is there to help decide notability of. -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 22:26, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

  Response: The school has not produced any US supreme court justices (as per wiki article you linked), only state or district level ones, and is only ranked 112/194 in [Best Law Schools]. Harryb7 (talk) 23:00, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

  John Marshall Harlan II is mentioned prominently in the article? Not to mention the honorable Judge Judy. 1brianm7 (talk) 00:02, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

  My mistake! Foolishly assumed he would have been mentioned in the notable alumni section. Harryb7 (talk) 00:36, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

  ... which he was. Sorry, it was and still is quite late where I am. Harryb7 (talk) 00:39, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

• Keep per WP:PROF#C5. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:55, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
• Keep; Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert and David Eppstein surely have this right. Josh Milburn (talk) 17:47, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:NPROF#5. She has also co-authored a notable book. Kelob2678 (talk) 20:14, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
• Comment: I appear to be two degrees of separation from the subject through at least seven connections, two of whom are close friends, and three degrees of separation from well over 100 people. I also have been a financial supporter of New York Law School, her employer, for over a decade. I think that she probably passes either for having a distinguished chair at a high-ranking school, or as co-author of a notable book. Bearian (talk) 00:30, 22 April 2026 (UTC)
• Keep Per C5. Mscuthbert's breakdown on the chair is convincing and only a handful of "Distinguished" named chairs at a 130+ year old school. Book also helps. Amishspase (talk) 05:31, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 05:30, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

• Keep: Passes NPROF 🄻🄰 11:15, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

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