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When Peter Berkowitz graduated from Yale with a Ph.D. in political science, he knew exactly what he didn’t want to do: plunge into an academic lifestyle. He instead opted to go to law school, but in his second year at Yale Law, academia came calling in the form of an irresistible suitor: Harvard...
...high expectations about teaching Harvard graduate and undergraduate students, and felt that it was a great opportunity for one in my field,” says Berkowitz. At the time, he was excited for the experience and had no expectations for a future tenure bid. “Everybody who had eyes saw there were very very high standards for tenure and knew that their chances were remote,” he says...
...sense of themselves, raises their self-esteem and keeps them busy. Cornyn's bill, he adds, "is an attempt to pass another 'Son of Sam' law," referring to the 1971 New York state law aimed at blocking potential book profits for notorious criminals like "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the law in 1987, finding it overly broad and in violation of the First Amendment free speech rights. The proposed federal "murderabilia" law takes a different approach by targeting prisoners' involvement in interstate or foreign commerce, and it applies to all prisoners, state or federal...
...CRIMSON/ HILLARY W. BERKOWITZ...
This logic has inflamed feminists and editorial-page writers. "The decision is philosophically from another century, from a time when our rape laws were based on the concept of women being property of men," says Berkowitz, whose organization will push for a legislative remedy if Maryland's highest court doesn't reverse the ruling. In the meantime, the defendant is serving a five-year sentence, and the legal world continues to debate how quickly--if at all--a man must go when a woman says...