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Taking liberties

a decade of hard cases, bad laws, and bum raps

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Alan M. Dershowitz2 editions

When is conduct "unbecoming"? -- It's the silly season for the law -- ACLU takes a wrong turn -- A Birthday to remember -- Who owns Madonna's image? -- Seers' futures are under siege -- AIDS presents a legal challenge -- AIDS crisis: a rational approach -- AIDS threatens our freedom as well as our lives -- Meese misspeaks on civil rights -- The Danger of record-rating -- Suing those who make guns that kill -- Trying the hijackers -- Banned in Cambridge? -- First Amendment is the winner -- Seat belts and civil liberties -- Prostitution can't be "buckled up"--Politicizing the courts -- The Right to trust your lawyer -- Art spurs action--and truth-seeking -- Pornography and abortion: let citizens choose -- Getting tough on car crimes -- "Go to your room!" -- End of affirmative action? -- Must lawyers warn their clients? -- The Right to high school humor -- Big Brother in the bedroom -- Supreme Court throws out our unwritten rights -- A New government blacklist -- Porn, whatever it is, shows no link to rape -- Press is punished for doing its job -- Testing the police for drugs -- The Rise of the "hanging jury" -- Flying past the Fourth Amendment -- The New High Court: our best nineteenth-century minds -- The Senate should not rubber-stamp judges -- Cigarette pushers have rights, too -- Who really killed John Belushi? -- Should we let pregnant women smoke and drink? -- Give Zakharov his rights--even if it's not fair -- Don't look for big shifts at the High Court--yet -- The Price of a life depends on the color of the skin -- Tortured reasoning, executed prisoners -- Supreme Court is not the "people's court" -- Judges should be a breed apart -- Judge was pioneer, conscience of the nation -- Impeachment: for emergency use only -- The Fifth Amendment: it's all the rage this year -- Insiders and the evil intentions of the small investor -- Smoking at someone else should be a crime -- Defending a terrorist: more than just a bad dream -- Of Meese and Miranda -- Fans scream for blood but shouldn't get it -- Step right up and get your clean urine here -- Homicide and the seat-belt defense -- The Buying of a witness -- Joke law is nothing to laugh at -- Junkies' needles my kill us all -- Freedom of speech for the CIA -- A Judicial cover-up? -- Alice in Wonderland replaces the Constitution -- Freedom of religion means the freedom to be mean -- His (version of the) truth is marching on -- Liberal: a conservative whose friends are in trouble -- The Supreme Court may swing right -- Robert Bork: hatchet man at a massacre -- Bork and North as mirror images -- Bork: a closet judicial activist -- White House bait and switch on Bork -- When the bench becomes soapbox -- High Court meets without magic nine -- Stallonography -- Attorney General must be free of political ties -- Charge and acquittal warrant equal time -- What Bush and others miss at Auschwitz -- Crime and the stuff of life -- The Future of our Constitution -- A daughter's death, a mother's responsibility -- Assault with a deadly virus -- A Judicial double standard on free speech -- Censorship has no place on campus -- A Double standard for husband killers -- No more Perry Mason surprise witnesses -- Students can fight censors -- Murder by magazine -- There's more to law than helping the rich get richer -- Thematic overview.

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