Joe K wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 5:33 pm
Dershowitz is a master of the classic Fox News shtick where you claim to be a Democrat and/or liberal in an attempt to give legitimacy to an extreme right-wing view. Back in 2008, when I was in law school, I attended a debate between Dershowitz and a French professor about Dershowitz’s prior support for the use of torture. He frankly embarrassed himself and was completely unprofessional to students and other professors present.
Interesting, I'd love to hear more about this. I went to a Dershowitz guest speaker session in law school, too. I don't remember what it was about, just thinking that Dershowitz came across as the most arrogant douchebag I'd ever met. There was a homeless guy who was always in my school's library. He stood up and challenged Dershowitz , and I thought the homeless guy got the better of him on the merits of the debate. I watched Dershowitz interacting with students and professors at the reception afterwards, and he just oozed a gross, negative energy. I can't think of a better way to say it. I'm not a new-agey kind of guy, but I just felt gross being near him.
More to the point, I wrote my law journal note (30 pages, 200 footnote minimum, and they call it a note) on state sanctioned used of torture focussed on an Israeli Commission that investigated the effectiveness and legality of torture. The majority of scholarly work advocating for torture was written by Dershowitz. He flew in the face of just about every consensus, and his points were deplorable. I really wish I could find a copy of my note, or the floppy disk it's saved on.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt