Word: dershowitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, are as notable or notorious as Professor of Law and ex-deli king Alan M. Dershowitz, who once again this summer demonstrated his inimitable knack for making headlines...
...Dershowitz is currently involved in the international controversy over Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp and a Catholic convent built on the outskirts of the Auschwitz death camp, which many consider a sacred ground for 2.5 million Jews who died there during World...
...Dershowitz called Glemp "a bigot and an anti-semite...
...Dershowitz has also given time recently to a different legal dispute, one of a more personal nature...
Critics blast RICO for the seemingly catchall provisions of both its criminal and its civil arms. "It's legislation on the cheap," says Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. "It's an attempt to use one statute to solve all the evils of society." Others say the law is a good example of justice made blind. Government investigators indicate that, as originally intended, RICO has significantly dented the operations of organized crime. But Notre Dame law professor G. Robert Blakey, one of its main drafters, insists that Congress never intended to restrict its application to the Mob. "We don't want...