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Searching for
Champions - Academia
(Building Honest Scholarship)
PROFESSOR ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
(Harvard Law School)
The Best Defense -- Introduction:
"One working title for
this book was 'Black Robes, White Lies.' That would have been appropriate,
because lying, distortion, and other forms of intellectual dishonesty are
endemic among judges...Beneath the robes of many judges, I have seen corruption,
incompetence, bias, laziness, meanness of spirit, and plain ordinary stupidity.
I know of
numerous instances where judges have made false claims about what they read,
distorted the records, and engaged in other deceptions. Why judges are
permitted to get away with -- and indeed are often praised for -- this kind of
intellectual dishonesty is an important and largely unanswered question
confronting the American legal system."
1996
CJA's
March 20, 1996 letter
Ex. A: "Comm'n Abandons Investigative Mandate",
CJA's Letter to the Editor, NYLJ, August 14, 1995
Ex. B-1: CJA's November 17, 1995 letter to Professor Monroe Freedman
Ex.
B-2: CJA's December 1, 1995 letter to Professor Stephen Gillers
Ex. C:
CJA's "Questions to be Answered" by Independent Evaluator
Ex. D: CJA's March 18, 1996 letter to City Bar President Barbara Paul
Robinson
Ex. E:
CJA's March 18, 1996 letter to Professor Stephen Gillers
-- transmitting copy of
file of Doris L. Sassower v. Commission on Judicial Conduct of the
State of NY
April 2, 1996 letter
from Professor Dershowitz' secretary
CJA's April 12, 1996 letter
April 15, 1996 letter
from Professor Dershowitz' secretary
CJA's April 15, 1996 letter
2001
CJA's May 3, 2001 letter
-- transmitting appellate papers in
Test Case - State (Commission)
2002
CJA's January 28, 2002 letter
-- "RE: HELP in obtaining amicus and other assistance, including media
coverage, for the public interest lawsuit Elena Ruth Sassower,
Coordinator of the Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc., acting pro bono
publico against Commission on Judicial Conduct of the State of New York
(S.Ct./NY Co. #108551; App. Div. 1st Dept. #5638) -- now headed for the New
York Court of Appeals"
Ex. D: "Without Merit: The Empty Promise of
Judicial Discipline", by Elena Sassower, The Long Term View
(Massachusetts School of Law) (summer 1996)
Ex.
E: "Nameless nut slimes Dershowitz", NY Post, 12/26/98
Ex.
F: Professor Ed Greenstein's September 16, 1999 letter of tribute to Elena
Sassower
-- transmitting appellate papers in
Test Case - State (Commission)
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