Dershowitz Vs. Finkelstein: Who's Right and Whos' Wrong?

The feud between Alan Dershowitz, a senior professor at Harvard Law School, and Norman Finkelstein, a junior professor of political science at DePaul University, is back in the news. Finkelstein is up for tenure this year, and Dershowitz has been waging an aggressive campaign against him. Both Finkelstein's department and an outside committee voted in favor of tenure, but the dean then recommended against it. As of this writing, the university has not made ... Full Story »

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Martha Rosler
4.7
by Martha Rosler - Oct. 1, 2008

this is a scholarly, lawyerly investigation of charges made by Dershowitz against Finkelstein, based partly on attacks on Dershowitz's own writings for accuracy and originality and subsequent efforts on Dershowitz's part to (unfairly) influence Finkelstein's tenuring process. It is well argued, logical and highly persuasive. Dry reading, though. (And why not?)

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