Taking the stand: my life in the law

Born and religiously educated in Brooklyn

My secular education

My clerkships

Beginning my life as an academic

The evolution of the First Amendment

Direct and vicarious "offensiveness" of obscenity

Disclosure of secrets

Expressions that incite violence and disrupt speakers

The right to falsify history and science

Defamation and privacy

Speech that "supports" terrorist groups

Life intrudes on law

"Death is different"

The death penalty for those who don't kill

Using science, law, logic, and experience to disprove murder

Death, politics, religion, and international intrigue

Death cases from the classroom to the courtroom and from the courtroom to the classroom

The changing politics of rape

The changing impact of the media on the law

The changing face of race

The crumbling wall between church and state

From human rights to human wrongs.