Contrary to Popular Opinion

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Berkley Books, 1994 - Political Science - 398 pages
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Dershowitz, who has represented such infamous personalities as Mike Tyson, Leona Helmsley, and Klaus von Bulow, now offers his sharp, trenchant opinions on a vast array of subjects, including pornography, abortion, the Rodney King case, the Supreme Court, terrorism, and the war on drugs.

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Dershowitz is a Harvard law professor, celebrated criminal defense attorney (he has represented such controversial figures as Mike Tyson, Claus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley, and now Mia Farrow), and the ... Read full review

Contents

Todays Judges Fail to Make the Grade Chief Justice Says He
25
Part Two FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
39
Censors An Invitation to Murder? Philip Morris Waves Flag
57
Copyright

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About the author (1994)

Attorney and bestselling author Alan M. Dershowitz was first in his class at Yale Law School. Dershowitz was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard Law School. He is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University. He has served on the National Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union. Dershowitz has represented many controversial clients, including O. J. Simpson, Claus von Bulow, Mike Tyson, Leona Helmsley and Patricia Hearst. His books include Reasonable Doubt (about the O. J. Simpson trial) and Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr, and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis.

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TitleContrary to Popular Opinion
AuthorAlan M. Dershowitz
Editionreprint
PublisherBerkley Books, 1994
ISBN0425141470, 9780425141472
Length398 pages
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