Chutzpah on the scales of justice
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Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is also one of the US's most famous defence lawyers, his client list having included O.J. Simpson, Claus von Bulow and Mike Tyson. Dershowitz has also established a reputation as a writer and Jewish commentator. Georgetown University law professor Paul Rothstein argues that society needs someone like Dershowitz with his passionate commitment to civil liberties, free speech and the rights of the individual. However Dershowitz's fellow lawyers shudder at his client list while his claim that anti-Semitism has virtually disappeared is not always appreciated in the US.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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Homicide and the history of life on the streets of America
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Roger Lane, professor of history at Haverford College in Philadelphia, argues that homicide is history and, like history, repeats itself. He explains that murder reveals historical trends and points out that murder trials reveal details about ordinary people, such as what they were wearing and what they were doing. Lane explains that homicide holds a mirror to American society and argues that the street gang killings of the 1990s stem from the culture of violent self-defence created by the legal disregard of violence directed at blacks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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Love's labours found?
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Donald Foster, following 12 years work as an American scholar, claims that a poem entitled 'A Funeral Elegy' is written by William Shakespear, even though it is not structured in Shakespear's typical style. Foster wrote a book about the subject in 1989, and since then has found new supporting evidence for the authorship of the poem using computer analysis techniques.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1996
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