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Taking the stand : my life in the law
- Title
- Taking the stand : my life in the law / Alan Dershowitz.
- Author
- Dershowitz, Alan M.
- Publication
- New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-161 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
Details
- Description
- ix, 518 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Born and religiously educated in Brooklyn -- My secular education -- My clerkships -- Beginning my life as an academic -- The evolution of the First Amendment -- Direct and vicarious "offensiveness" of obscenity -- Disclosure of secrets -- Expressions that incite violence and disrupt speakers -- The right to falsify history and science -- Defamation and privacy -- Speech that "supports" terrorist groups -- Life intrudes on law -- "Death is different" -- The death penalty for those who don't kill -- 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 impact of the media on the law -- The changing face of race -- The crumbling wall between church and state -- From human rights to human wrongs.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-161
- ISBN
- 9780307719270 (hbk.)
- 0307719278 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2013022762
- OCLC
- 849740874
- Author
- Dershowitz, Alan M.
- Title
- Taking the stand : my life in the law / Alan Dershowitz.
- Imprint
- New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-161