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to defend the government and to work for the government. Some of the same hard leftists who demand academic freedom for themselves and their ideological colleagues were among the leaders of those seeking to deny academic freedom to a distinguished law professor who had worked for...

I have also played a significant role in the campaign to abolish or limit the death penalty. This began more than a half century ago when I was a law clerk responsible for drafting the first judicial opinion challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty as “cruel and un...

my initial assignment as Justice Goldberg’s law clerk was to write a memorandum on the possible unconstitutionality of the death penalty. Here is how [ find author]______

we would win. The justices seemed to acknowledge that if there was no evidence that Ricky and Raymond had the “specific intent” to kill the Lyons’ family “that’s the end of the case.” I was confident that when the justices reviewed the entire record of the case

one intends certain consequences when he desires that his acts cause those consequences or knows that those consequences are substantially certain to result from his acts.""... As petitioners point out

and the case was assigned by the senior partner to a well-known woman lawyer active in feminist causes. She found the story implausible – so much so that the lawyers decided to waive a jury trial and have the case decided by a judge

lecturing and writing about the corrosive influences of perjury on our legal system -- especially when committed by those whose job it is to enforce the law

she was deeply embarrassed by what she had done and has not repeated the errors of her way during her subsequent years of service on the Court.

but the vast majority of the world’s population has no such legal protection. Human rights are not limited by geographic or political borders. They apply

[check year] he asked me to help him in an informal capacity as an advisor on human rights and matters of international law.

since I am not an expert on Israeli law—about the sexual harassment charges he was then facing. He told me that he had been offered a deal by the prosecutor under which he would plead guilty to an harassment charge

titled “David Boies’s Egregious Involvement With Harvey Weinstein.” Written in the wake of revelations in The New Yorker that Boies had engaged private investigators to kill an investigation by Times reporters into Weinstein’s alleged sexual predations

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Cap’n Crunch. An article about Draper in Esquire in 1972 had, for instance, inspired two teenagers named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to start their first company to build and sell little phreaking boxes. Woz later recalled nervously meeting the Cap’n one day in California. He wa...