Word: dershowitz
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...millions of viewers, both national and international, tune in to view the trial of O.J. Simpson. Harvard Law School has become, like it or not, a de facto participant in this affair. Via the laptop computer of Robert Shapiro, Simpson's lead defense attorney, the Constitutional expertise of Alan Dershowitz is made available on a moment-to-moment, blow-by-blow basis...
...Dershowitz, who has borrowed Harvard's prestige to lend weight to a variety of moral and social causes, some meritorious and some not, has no moral basis for claiming exemption. As a paid member of the defense, he has paraded himself through the media as a commentator. It occurs to me that even Harvard may be well-served by a gadfly, if that is what it takes to inform it that its acquiescence in this matter makes it an amicus curiae of the legal team which is helping to dismantle the fundamental dignity of our institutions of law and order...
...humiliate public opinion into acquiescence is not a very lofty standard for the American institution of due process. Rather than wait for a fait accompli and the hand-wringing reserved to the whiners, perhaps the students of Harvard will show some moral leadership in this matter by informing Professor Dershowitz that he is free to sell his wares any way he chooses, so long as he keeps Harvard out of it. Robert Roecklin Graduate School of Rutgers University
...awful as the story was, Baker was well within his rights to publish it on the newsgroup, according to legal experts such as Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz...
...think [Harvard should punish thestudent if the situation happened here], and Icertainly hope not," Dershowitz said. "We practicefree speech in this university, unlike in someother universities...