Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations: The Case Against Alan Dershowitz

'In June 2007, DePaul University denied tenure to Norman Finkelstein, an assistant professor of political science. The decision ignited a firestorm of protest from DePaul students and faculty, as well as from faculty across the country and abroad. Finkelstein's department had voted 9-3 in favor of tenure, and a college-level committee unanimously joined that recommendation, 5-0.

But the University Board on Promotion and Tenure (UBPT) voted 4-3 against tenure, and DePaul's president claimed to "find no compelling reasons to overturn the UBPT's decision." The tenure denial was a great victory for Harvard Law School's Professor Alan Dershowitz, who had been campaigning vigorously against Finkelstein at least since the fall of 2006.'

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