Harvard Ethics: An Oxymoron

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Controversial professor's class canceled

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->DePaul University canceled the one remaining class taught by a controversial professor who has accused some Jews of improperly using the legacy of the Holocaust.

Norman Finkelstein, whose work led to a long-running public feud with <b><span style='color:red'>Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz</b></span>, says he may respond by committing civil disobedience when classes resume Sept. 5.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Dershowitz, who threatened to sue Finkelstein's publisher for libel, urged DePaul officials to reject Finkelstein's tenure bid in June
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Is it the same Dershowitz who defended O J Simpson?
And what's with the plagiarisim scandal that Dershowitz was alleged to be involved in plagiarism Harvard Plagiarism Archive
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Professor Dershowitz engages in an "orgy of plagiarism," committing "wholesale, unacknowledged looting" of research from an earlier book addressing the same subject. (http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn09262003.html)

Specifically, it has been reported that 22 of the 52 endnotes to the first two chapters of Professor Dershowitz’s book were lifted straight from a 1984 book by Joan Peters, "From Time Immemorial," without attribution. These 22 endnotes contain not just the citations from Peters’ footnotes, but also extensive quotations from the cited sources set forth in Peters’ footnotes.
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Harvard okay with that?