One American university reviews lists of duties of plagiarist (8)
I believe the answer is:
imitator
'plagiarist' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'one american university reviews lists of duties' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'american university' becomes 'mit' (I've seen this in other clues).
'reviews' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (view the letters another way).
'lists of duties' becomes 'rota' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'rota' reversed gives 'ator'.
'i'+'mit'+'ator'='IMITATOR'
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for imitator that I've seen before include "One who mimics or emulates" , "Copycat" , "Ape" , "One who copies another" , "A trio, Tim, is a mimic" .)