Word: dershowitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of law, spoke on journalistic ethics and the First Amendment...
Saying his speech was a chance to "complain about the complainers," Dershowitz suggested structured ethics rules, a court of corrections and peer discipline as ways to improve the profession...
Insiders disagree on whether the shifting views are fostered by the A.C.L.U.'s in-house affirmative-action plan that requires the board, formerly dominated by white males, to be at least 50% female and 20% minority. Whatever the reason, old soldiers like Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and columnist Nat Hentoff, both onetime A.C.L.U. board members, see a serious threat to single-minded support of individual liberty. Dershowitz asserts that "the A.C.L.U. is a very different organization today." To him, the key tenet of the A.C.L.U. faith is support for free-speech rights for "causes that you despise." Without that...
...Dershowitz said that his highly publicized cases his list of past clients includes Klaus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley and Mia Farrow--actually contribute to his classes. "I teach Tyson in my Criminal Law class; we will be studying rape during the next few weeks," he said...
...class, says Dershowitz "has spoken about the case in class to show what can go wrong in a rape trial and to show different biases which exist both on the side of the defense and on the side of the prosecution...