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Sharansky and I were on a panel together discussing human rights. When it was over we got onto the same elevator. Remarkably

now a cabinet member of the Israeli government. When I represented him his name was Anatoly Sharansky and he was an imprisoned Soviet refusenick. His mother and wife asked me

I was invited to become a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences on the Stanford campus in Palo Alto

who after several years of confinement was finally released from the Soviet Gulag. When she finally came to America

” which first alerted me to the plight of Soviet Jewish and non-Jewish dissidents. I traveled to the Soviet Union and other parts of Eastern Europe on several occasions during the 1970s and 1980s and filed briefs on behalf of dissidents Ref...

several years after he left the Soviet Union. Since he had been a sometimes threatened advocate of human rights in Moscow

“In practice you can do a lot to implement human rights in this generation but in teaching you can both help this generation and help plant the seeds for progress later on.”

pioneer in the international protecting of human rights. The seminar taught future lawyers how to defend foreign dissident clients and how to promote human rights in other nations.

there is discrimination against everybody

” he paraphrases. “If I were a 39 year old citizen of Kiev or wherever

although I don’t like that term. I prefer to think of myself as an advocate for human rights…” Dershowitz’s definition of human rights is uncomplicated. He applies to the world at large a “core concept of human rights”—everyone should be fr...

the War in Vietnam and other human wrongs. My early work on human rights won me a coveted Guggenheim fellowship and other honors. It also earned me the media title “Global Watchdog.” 97 In an article by that name

the division of war-making responsibility between the President and Congress

and we gave only two days for registering

which is the critical social issue of our time?”

” but would “look at these issues in a detached

and the legal issues growing out of it.”

I didn’t focus on Jewish rights or on Israel. There were bigger and more serious problems facing America

I had stopped being a strictly observant Orthodox Jew. My synagogue attendees had become episodic and my involvement in the Jewish community peripheral. The reason was my children. Many people became more religiously committed “because of t...

I began to explore the meaning of the term “human rights