Taking the stand : my life in the law / Alan Dershowitz.
2013
KF373.D46 A3 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
Taking the stand : my life in the law / Alan Dershowitz.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
Description
ix, 518 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Born and religiously educated in Brooklyn
My secular education
Brooklyn and Yale
My clerkships Judge Bazelon and Justice Goldberg
Beginning my life as an academic
Harvard Law School
The evolution of the First Amendment
new meanings for cherished words
Direct and vicarious "offensiveness" of obscenity
Disclosure of secrets
Expressions that incite violence and disrupt speakers
The right to falsify history and science: Holocaust denial, space aliens, and academic freedom
Defamation and privacy: "he that filches from me my good name"
Speech that supports terrorist groups
Life intrudes on law
"Death is different:" challenging capital punishment
The death penalty for those who don't kill: Ricky and Raymond Tison
Using science, law, logic and experience to disprove murder
Death, politics, religion, and international intrigue
Death cases from the classroom to the courtroom and from the courtroom to the classroom
The changing politics of rape
The changing face of race: from color blindness to race-specific remedies
From human rights to human wrongs
how the hard left hijacked the human rights agenda.
My secular education
Brooklyn and Yale
My clerkships Judge Bazelon and Justice Goldberg
Beginning my life as an academic
Harvard Law School
The evolution of the First Amendment
new meanings for cherished words
Direct and vicarious "offensiveness" of obscenity
Disclosure of secrets
Expressions that incite violence and disrupt speakers
The right to falsify history and science: Holocaust denial, space aliens, and academic freedom
Defamation and privacy: "he that filches from me my good name"
Speech that supports terrorist groups
Life intrudes on law
"Death is different:" challenging capital punishment
The death penalty for those who don't kill: Ricky and Raymond Tison
Using science, law, logic and experience to disprove murder
Death, politics, religion, and international intrigue
Death cases from the classroom to the courtroom and from the courtroom to the classroom
The changing politics of rape
The changing face of race: from color blindness to race-specific remedies
From human rights to human wrongs
how the hard left hijacked the human rights agenda.
Summary
Alan Dershowitz has been called the "winningest appellate criminal defense lawyer in history." He has led or been part of the defense team for such storied clients as Bill Clinton, Julian Assange, O. J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Mia Farrow, Jeffrey MacDonald, Patty Hearst, Mike Tyson, and many more. Here, for the first time, Dershowitz writes about his evolution as a lawyer--how within a few short years he changed from a C-minus student in Yeshiva High School to become the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard Law School. He describes his formative years as a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. He discusses the evolution of his thinking over the years as he tackles the subtleties of censorship and the limits of First Amendment law, the ongoing tension between individual freedom and national security, the evolution of civil rights, and why the abortion rights debate hasn't moved forward since Roe v. Wade. Filled with unforgettable cases and vignettes, Taking the Stand is a deeply personal account of one of the legendary legal minds of our time.--From publisher description.
The esteemed Harvard lawyer and best-selling author of Chutzpah describes his career and the cases that have changed American jurisprudence throughout the past half century, providing coverage of such topics as his early academic struggles, his clerking work for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and his role in such cases as the O.J. Simpson trial and the Leona Helmsley defense.
The esteemed Harvard lawyer and best-selling author of Chutzpah describes his career and the cases that have changed American jurisprudence throughout the past half century, providing coverage of such topics as his early academic struggles, his clerking work for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and his role in such cases as the O.J. Simpson trial and the Leona Helmsley defense.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-510) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF373.D46 A3 2013
Language
English
ISBN
0307719278 hardback
9780307719270 hardback
1107034620 hardback
9781107034624 hardback
0307719294 ebook
9780307719294 ebook
9780307719270 hardback
1107034620 hardback
9781107034624 hardback
0307719294 ebook
9780307719294 ebook
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