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Taking the Stand My Life in the Law

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ISBN-10: 0307719278

ISBN-13: 9780307719270

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alan Dershowitz

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America's most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally been involved in.In Taking the Stand, Dershowitze reveals the evolution of his own thinking on such fundamental issues as censorship and the First Amendment, Civil Rights, Abortion, homocide and the increasing role that science plays in a legal defense. Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University, and the author of such acclaimed bestsellers as Chutzpah, The…    
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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 10/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, attended college and law school at Stanford University, has been married to John O'Connor since 1952, and they have three sons. She was Arizona state senator from 1969-1975, and she served on the Arizona Court of Appeals from 1979-1981. Nominated by President Reagan as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, she took the oath of office on September 25, 1981, the first woman to do so.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…    

Introduction: A Life of Continuous Change
From Brooklyn to Cambridge: With Stops in New Haven and Washington
Born and Religiously Educated in Brooklyn: Williamsburg and Boro Park
My Secular Education: Brooklyn and Yale
My Clerkships: Judge Bazelon and Justice Goldberg
Beginning My Life as an Academic: Harvard Law School
The Changing Sound of Freedom of Speech: From the Pentagon Papers to Wiki Leaks
The Evolution of the First, Amendment: New Meanings for Cherished Words
Direct and Vicarious "Offensiveness" of Obscenity: I Am Curious (Yellow) and Deep Throat
Disclosure of Secrets: The Pentagon Papers and Julian Assange
Expressions That Incite Violence and Disrupt Speakers: Bruce Franklin and the Muslim Student Association
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: The MEK Case
Life Intrudes on Law: Illness and Other Close Calls
Criminal Justice: From Sherlock Holmes to CSI
"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: Von B�low, Simpson, Sybers, Murphy, and MacDonald
Death, Politics, Religion, and International Intrigue: Sharansky, Kennedy, and the Former President of the Ukraine
Death Cases from the Classroom to the Courtroom and from the Courtroom to the Classroom: Shooting a Corpse and Crashing a Helicopter
The Changing Politics of Rape: Mike Tyson, DSK, and Student Protestors
The Changing Impact of the Media on the Law: Bill Clinton and Woody Allen
The Never-Ending Quest for Equality and Justice
The Changing Face of Race: From Color Blindness to Race-Specific Remedies
The Crumbling Wall Between Church and State: Attempts to Christianize America
From Human Rights to Human Wrongs: How the Hard Left Hijacked the Human Rights Agenda
Conclusion: Closing Argument
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index