Word: hjlsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both instances, opponents responded by trying to curtail the comments they so detested. The chairman of the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association (HJLSA). Denine J. Karlam '80, chastised the Law School for partially funding the conference at which Deena Abu-Loghod, information coordinator for the PLO mission at the U.N., would speak. The reason, according to Karlan: the school's decision to fund the program "implicitly supports the PLO," because Abu-Loghod "has a reputation for hooking into these types of conferences and using them as a forum for PLO views against Israel...
...HJLSA group's legal brief showed that the Soviet prosecutors failed to prove, first, that Zissel believed the statements were false, and second, that the statements were false...
Donna E. Arzt, a Harvard law graduate and general counsel for the Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center, said the HJLSA's efforts afford Zissel protection, because Soviet authorities now know they cannot just make him disappear...
Alan M. Dershowitz, Professor of Law said the HJLSA "has a great potential for doing Mr. Zissel a lot of good. We have seen this in similar cases in the past...
Daniel M. Jaffe, head of the HJLSA's international affairs division, said yesterday he will travel to Chicago next Friday to present the case of Joseph S. Zissels to the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL...