Taking the Stand: My Life in the LawCrown, 15 de out. de 2013 - 560 páginas #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz recounts his extraordinary coming of age in this legal autobiography, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past fifty years, most of which he has personally been involved in. “Overflowing with fascinating and funny vignettes involving his cases and clients, and probing and provocative insights into contemporary legal controversies.”—The Boston Globe Alan Dershowitz, the preeminent defense lawyer in America today, has been called the “winningest appellate criminal defense lawyer in history.” A professor at Harvard Law School since the age of twenty-five, he has led or been part of the defense team for such storied clients as Bill Clinton, Julian Assange, O. J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Mia Farrow, Jeffrey MacDonald, Patty Hearst, Mike Tyson, and countless others. In Taking the Stand, Dershowitz describes his evolution as a lawyer—from a C-minus student in Yeshiva High School to the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard Law School. In his #1 New York Times bestselling book Chutzpah, Alan described his Jewish life. In Taking the Stand, he looks at the people and events that have helped to shape his ideas about the law. He describes his formative years as a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. In the course of his career, he confronts the challenges of First Amendment law, the ongoing tension between individual freedom and national security, the questionable science often employed to prosecute accused murderers, the evolution of civil rights—and why the abortion rights debate in society hasn’t moved forward since Roe v. Wade. Filled with unforgettable cases and inside legal “baseball,” Taking the Stand is a deeply personal account of one of the legendary legal minds of our time. |
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My Secular Education | 48 |
My Clerkships | 56 |
Beginning My Life as an Academic | 84 |
PART II | 103 |
Direct and Vicarious Offensiveness of Obscenity | 119 |
Disclosure of Secrets | 142 |
Using Science Law Logic and Experience | 228 |
Death Politics Religion and International Intrigue | 276 |
Death Cases from the Classroom to the Courtroom | 309 |
The Changing Politics of Rape | 322 |
The Changing Impact of the Media on the Law | 354 |
Being Falsely Accused | 385 |
The Changing Face of Race | 405 |
The Crumbling Wall Between Church and State | 416 |
The Right to Falsify History and Science | 166 |
Defamation and Privacy | 176 |
Speech That Supports Terrorist Groups | 184 |
Life Intrudes on Law | 190 |
Death Is Different | 203 |
The Death Penalty for Those Who Dont Kill | 213 |
From Human Rights to Human Wrongs | 435 |
Conclusion | 464 |
Acknowledgments | 499 |
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