Results for “All in the Family”

…to present their work there because several of the members served on the Harvard Board of Overseers that had to approve all tenure decisions. “You’ve hurt your chances

write and speak—even after my active teaching career at Harvard comes to an end. I am a teacher first and foremost. All of my work—classroom pedagogy

all the time. I defended other trouble-makers. I questioned everything and everybody. I may have had a Fifth Amendment right to “remain silent

… at least some absolutists—warrant the protection of the First Amendment. I know of no absolutist who would argue that all expression—including words of extortion

it is clear that not all verbal and other form of expression are protected by the First Amendment. There is widespread disagreement over what are appropriate exceptions

I have surprised both my supporters and detractors by calling for precise and narrow “speech codes” on campuses. My reasoning is simple: censorship is inevitable on all university campuses in extreme situations; if a professor used the “N” word to call on an African-American stu...

I get calls and emails demanding that I sue them for defaming the Jewish people or committing a “blood libel.” But under our First Amendment only an individual can be defamed. There is no such thing as group libel. In other words you can say all you want about “the Jews

and the best issue on appeal—the safest and neatest—was the judge’s decision to allow Binion’s lawyer to testify that Binion had told him the day before his death that if he were found dead

and around her mouth. These fibers did not match any clothing belonging to Jeffrey MacDonald or to anyone else in the MacDonald household. (Helena Stoeckley

even though all the principles are dead and the case is more than 40 years old. I was one of the lawyers involved in the Chappaquiddick case—the investigation of Senator Edward Kennedy for driving his car off a bridge on the Island (or peninsula of) Chappaquiddick

…rial judge determined to prevent a new trial that would have embarrassed her and freed Tyson. The conviction was eventually affirmed on a two to two tie vote by the Indiana Supreme Court

two of the doctors smoked marijuana and all of three of them began to disrobe. She said she protested and told them to stop when the three of them began to undress her. Each of the defendants then had sex with the nurse in the bedroom. She testified that she felt physically nu...

starting well before they were rich and famous. People often have a hard time changing old habits. I know that no matter how much money I now have

…ost African American leaders were deeply committed to race-specific affirmative action programs that gave advantages to all Black applicants

as well as other applicants who are economically and culturally deprived; none of them would offend the Constitution. But what the school may not do