A Wall Street Journal Besteller! Alan Dershowitz, one of America's most respected legal scholars and a New York Times bestselling author proves-with incontrovertible evidence-that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him, while suggesting a roadmap for how such allegations should be handled in a just society. "Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else."-Politico Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of...
Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World)
by Linda Myrsiades
In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, fre...
Of my personal observations about cyberlibel -- How to use this book -- Frequently asked questions -- Summary of the law of defamation and its application to cyberlibel -- Characteristics of the internet -- Differences and consequences in cyberlibel litigation and offline libel litigation -- Should internet-specific principles of law be adopted? -- Notice and limitation periods -- Juirisdiction -- Disclosure of the identity of an anonymous author -- Internet libel actions stayed as an abuse of p...
In his fiftieth book, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, Alan Dershowitz-#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most influential legal scholars-explores the implications of the increasing tendency in politics, academia, media, and even the courts of law to punish principle and reward partisan hypocrisy. Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" byPolitico,and "the nation's mo...