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...DePaul University assistant professor who publicly accused Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz of plagiarism in a 2005 appearance at Harvard Law School has received notification that he will be denied tenure in a decision upheld by his institution’s top official, according to a press release by the Chicago university...
...Dershowitz, in a May 4 Wall Street Journal piece entitled “Finkelstein’s Bigotry,” cited the plagiarism allegations—as well as the appearance of a “Hustler-type cartoon” depicting the law professor masturbating before images of dead Lebanese—as evidence of what he called “ad hominem, unscholarly, and extreme” tactics on the part of Finkelstein...
...DePaul media relations officials declined to clarify further whether the “ad hominem attacks” referenced by Holtschneider alluded specifically to any of Finkelstein’s interactions with Dershowitz. But Finkelstein said in an interview with The Crimson that he “suspect[ed] that the attacks on Dershowitz resonated” at least in part in his being denied tenure. The ousted DePaul professor went on to say that he disagreed with Dershowitz’s claims that he had “commissioned” the off-color cartoon, while maintaining that...
...woman who cannot stand controversy or dispute,” Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz told The Crimson a few days before Summers’ resignation in February 2006. “I can’t imagine a worse person making this kind of a judgment call...
Summers on May 2, addressing the final lecture of Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo”—a course inspired by the furor that dogged his presidency. Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who co-taught the course with Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, responded, “Well, maybe that was the problem...