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...commendable as the feminists' objectives may seem, critics worry about their methods, explaining that they could undermine free speech, encourage the suppression of ideas and possibly lead to book burnings. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz: "Women who would have the government ban sexist material are the new McCarthyites. It's the same old censorship in radical garb." But feminists, who plan to take their fight to state legislatures, insist that the issue is violence against women, not free speech. Says Brownmiller: "It's a myth that obscenity and pornography are protected by the First Amendment...
...Alan M. Dershowitz, 40. The student editors of the Harvard Law School Bulletin seldom lavish praise on the faculty, but for Dershowitz they made an exception. As the Bulletin put it, "He energetically attacks discrimination, represents criminals and defends the rights of others to defend themselves." The onetime boy wonder from Brooklyn (he was a full professor at Harvard at 28) admits to being "an extremist" on civil liberties. His credo: "If there is discrimination against anybody, there is discrimination against everybody." He has fought for the rights of American Nazis to speak and assemble, and successfully defended Actor Harry...
Human Rights-Rhetoric v.a Realtly--Joshua Rubenstein, New England coordinator, Amnesty International; John J. McAward, associate director, International programs, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee; and Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law; 3 Church...
...decision goes against Swain then it's good. The case is one of the abominations of American constitutional justice," Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said Thursday...
...This is the best news that one could hear.... The racist use of prosecution is rampant," Dershowitz added...