Dershowitz on Killing

War, the Death Penalty, Abortion, and Gun Control

Alan Dershowitz

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Sky Pony Press
18 July 2023

Ethical issues: abortion & birth control

InDershowitz on Killing: How the Law Decides Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die, Alan Dershowitz-New York Timesbestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars-examines the subjects of death, life, and the law.

Alan Dershowitz has been called ""one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America"" byPoliticoand ""the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights"" byNewsweek. His legal career as a criminal defense lawyer has been deeply involved with death and life decisions.

Dershowitz on Killingis a timely examination of issues and questions that are front and center in today's society. Employing a philosophical, moral, religious, and cultural lens to the legal aspects surrounding death and life, Dershowitz elucidates the role of government to determine who shall live and who shall die in declaring wars, ordering executions, authorizing deadly force, permitting or denying abortions, providing or mandating vaccines, controlling climate change, allowing or refusing asylum for endangered migrants, and other life and death rulings. He notes that when the government decides these choices, it is asked to do so by first determining whether a ""right"" is involved, because rights trump mere interest, just as constitutional restrictions trump legislative and executive actions.

Dershowitz on Killingasserts that the rules governing death and life decisions should reflect the irreversibility of death. It is essential reading for anyone interested in or concerned about how these decisions are allocated among state and federal; executive, legislative, and judicial; private and governmental; religious and secular institutions-and how people in a democracy, through the power of the ballot, have the ultimatesay in these critical decisions.

By: Alan Dershowitz
Imprint: Sky Pony Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 350g
ISBN: 9781510775718
ISBN 10: 1510775714
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 18 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alan Dershowitz is one of the most celebrated lawyers in the world. He was the youngest full professor in Harvard Law School history where he is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus. The author of numerous bestselling books, fromChutzpahtoGuilt by AccusationtoThe Case Against Impeaching TrumptoThe Best DefensetoReversal of Fortune(which was made into an Academy Awardwinning film) toDefending Israel, Dershowitz has advised presidents and prime ministers and has represented many prominent men and women, half of them pro bono.

Reviews for Dershowitz on Killing: War, the Death Penalty, Abortion, and Gun Control

""The fearless, peerless Alan Dershowitz."" --Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, late Chief Rabbi of Great Britain ""Anyone interested in the true merits of criminal law and very fine writing must read Alan Dershowitz's book."" --Truman Capote ""Alan Dershowitz speaks with great passion and personal courage."" --Elie Wiesel ""Astonishingly brilliant courtroom presence [and] a subtle and compelling theorist of civil liberties."" --Henry Louis Gates ""Love him or hate him, Dershowitz has lived a life that matters, hugely and enduringly. He is a man in full at a time when most of us aspire to be little more than a presence on Twitter."" --New York Times Book Review ""An intellectual heavyweight."" --The Economist ""Loud, provocative, brilliant, and principled...."" --Politico