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What do O.J. Simpson and Pharaoh of the Old Testament have in common? As of last Monday, both have benefited from the legal counsel of Alan Dershowitz. The Frankfurter Professor of Law showed off his debating chops by defending the notorious anti-Semite before an anything-but-impartial jury in a mock trial staged at Harvard Hillel. In a partially scripted exchange peppered with Old Testament allusions and political wisecracks, Dershowitz stood his ground against prosecuting attorney Austryn Professor of Jewish Studies Jay Harris, who accused Pharaoh of committing crimes against humanity. Dershowitz retorted that Pharoah could not be convicted...
After a few thousand years, the jury is still out. As Jews are midway through observing the holiday of Passover, famed defense attorney and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz faced off against Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris in a mock trial of Pharaoh last night. The two men debated Pharaoh’s guilt on charges of persecuting and enslaving the Jews and attempted genocide but neither side won. Harris, who teaches Moral Reasoning 54, “‘If There Is No God, Then All Is Permitted,’: Theism...
...torture cases, could make “reckless” decisions. Torture has been actively discussed in the U.S. ever since the Abu Ghraib case, when American military personnel tortured Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. Roth said that two Harvard professors—Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter Professor of Law, and Juliette Kayyem, a lecturer in Public Policy at the JFK School, have advocated the legalization of torture in the United States. Roth said that they might have the best intentions in mind, but that they overlook crucial problems in their proposal. Instead of focusing...
...media, and government have hijacked U,S, foreign policy to pursue pro-Israel interests. Summers’ defended the Kennedy School’s handling of the situation—the school has not removed the paper from its website and has allowed Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz to post a critical response. But Summers would not offer an opinion on the paper’s merits. “It seems to me that on academic freedom grounds it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to try to pass judgment on scholarly papers outside...
...Dershowitz said last night: “I’ll stick with my sources.” He called for the debate to move away from its focus on sources and back to the merits of the arguments...