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Dershowitz, Alan

Articles and information about attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz.

• - Book review, commenting on Dershowitz's thesis that it is the obligation of a criminal defense lawyer to seek what is best for his client and not necessarily what serves the interest of justice as he perceives it.
  
• - Transcribed interview of Dershowitz describing his role on the O.J. Simpson defense team, and his philosophy toward defending criminal suspects widely regarded as guilty.
  
• - Dershowitz editorial defending the use of torture against suspected terrorism, endorsing Israel's torture of Palestinian suspects, and calling for judicially issued 'torture warrants'.
  
• - Criticising Dershowitz as a tireless apologist for the pornography industry, and suggesting that his role as a Penthouse consultant affects his First Amendment advocacy.
  
• - Anti-semitic group, challenging Dershowitz's positions on international human rights as hypocritical, particularly in relation to his positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe.
  
• - Describing Alan Dershowitz's advocacy of torture of certain criminal suspects, most notably those suspected of terrorist acts.
  
• - Editorial criticising Dershowitz for allegedly calling Clinton's critics bigoted and anti-Semitic.
  
• - Essay accusing Dershowitz of hypocrisy, from Jews for Morality.
  
• - Comments from Dershowitz on the impeachment trial of President Clinton, during the pendency of proceedings.
  
• - Lauding Dershowitz as a principled defender of free speech, on the basis of his defense of symbolic speech acts under the United States Constitution, even when committed by hate groups.
  
• - Essay on moral character by Alan Dershowitz, excerpted from The Power of Character.
  
• - Presenting Dershowitz's comments expressing his disregard for the human rights claims of Palestinian refugees.
  
• - Alan Dershowitz's testimony suggesting that the impeachment of President Clinton was driven largely by political motives as opposed to the equal application of law.
  
• - Dershowitz editorial criticising the Bush Administration's actions allegedly endorsing Christianity over other religions.
  
• - Essay accusing Dershowitz of hypocrisy for his endorsement of the torture of certain criminal suspects.
  
• - Describing the circumstances of Alan Dershowitz's criticism of Rep. Bob Barr for giving a speech to a white supremacist group.
  
• - Analysis of the reasoning behind Alan Dershowitz's advocacy of torture.
  
• - Expression of support for the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
  
  

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