A Charge Of Plagiarism: Dershowitz v. Finkelstein

DePaul University Political Science Professor Norman Finkelstein has accused Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz of plagiarism, claiming that Dershowitz – the lawyer famous for representing O.J. Simpson and other high-profile clients – inappropriately lifted material from another author when writing the book “The Case for Israel.”

The University of California Press plans to publish Finkelstein’s book, “Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History,” in late August despite an aggressive campaign by Dershowitz to get them to drop it.

There are numerous other references in this article to previous battles between the two scholar/authors.