KENNETH LASSON
6320 Wirt Avenue / Baltimore, Maryland 21215 University of Baltimore School of Law / Baltimore, Maryland 21201 phones: 410-358-4649 {home} / 410- 837-4514 {office} fax: 410-837-4560 / e-mail: [email protected]
Formal Education The Johns Hopkins University (M.A. l967) University of Maryland School of Law (J.D. l966) The Johns Hopkins University (A.B. l963)
Professional Experience University System of Maryland Faculty Regents Scholar (2008) Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law (1976-present) Director, Haifa Summer Law Institute (1999-2014) On-site Director, Aberdeen Summer Law Program (1994) Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University (1985) Affirmative Action Officer, Loyola College (1977-1979) Lecturer, University of Maryland School of Law (1977) Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution (1975-1977) Assistant Professor in Political Science and Communication Arts, Loyola College (1972-1978) Assistant to the President, Goucher College (1970-1971) Consultant, Ralph Nader's Center for Study of Responsive Law (1969-1972) Assistant to the Dean, University of Maryland School of Law (1967-1969) Teaching Fellow and Lecturer, The Johns Hopkins University / Writing Seminars (1966-1968) Executive Secretary, Maryland School Law Revision Commission (1966-67) Research Assistant, Constitutional Convention Commission of Maryland (1966)
Courses Taught Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law II, Dispute Resolution, International Human Rights, Legal Writing, Law & Religion, Law & Social Reform
Professional and Community Service Current Member of Bar, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Fourth Circuit of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court; Senior Fellow, Center for International and Comparative Law; Editorial Board, Journal for the Study of Antisemitism; Legal Task Force, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East; President, Beth Abraham Congregation
Formerly Commissioner (and Vice Chairman), Community Relations Commission of Baltimore; Board of Directors, Center for Science in the Public Interest (Washington, D.C.); Appellate Panel, Public Defender of Maryland; Chairman, Israel/Middle East Committee, Baltimore Jewish Council; Panel, Maryland American Civil Liberties Union; Baltimore; Treasurer, Jewish Law Section, Association of American Law Schools; President, Cross Country Improvement Association; member, Baltimore Chapter, Committee on Law and Public Affairs; MICPEL Curriculum Development Committee; Board of Directors, Baltimore Jewish Council; Board of Directors, Jewish Arbitration and Mediation Board; Board of Directors, Hillel of Greater Baltimore; Fellow, Center on Negotiation and Conflict Management (UB); President, American Zionist Movement (Baltimore Chapter); UB Faculty Senate
Publications Books SACRED COWS, HOLY WARS / Verities and Vagaries in What's Kosher and What’s Not (Carolina Academic Press, 2017) DEFENDING TRUTH / The Quest for Honesty about Jews and Israel (Hadassa Word Press, 2017) TREMBLING IN THE IVORY TOWER / Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure (Bancroft Press, 2003) REPRESENTING YOURSELF / What You Can Do Without A Lawyer (Second Edition, Penguin Books, 1995) [first edition Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1983]) LEARNING LAW / The Mastery of Legal Logic (with Sheldon Margulies; Carolina Academic Press, 1993) MOUSETRAPS AND MUFFLING CUPS / 100 Brilliant and Bizarre U.S. Patents (Arbor House, 1986) GETTING THE MOST OUT OF WASHINGTON (with Senator William S. Cohen; Facts-on-File, 1982) YOUR RIGHTS AS A VET (Simon and Schuster, 1981) YOUR RIGHTS AND THE DRAFT (Simon and Schuster, 1980) PRIVATE LIVES OF PUBLIC SERVANTS (Indiana University Press, 1978) PROUDLY WE HAIL / Profiles of Public Citizens in Action (Viking Press, 1975) THE WORKERS / Portraits of Nine American Jobholders (Viking Press, l97l; Bantam Books (paperback, 1972)
{Book Chapters} Holocaust Denial in North America [chapter in book entitled ANTISEMITISM IN NORTH AMERICA, published by Brill in 2016] Academic Antisemitism [chapter in book entitled ANTISEMITISM ON CAMPUS: PAST AND PRESENT, Academic Studies Press 2011] Defending Truth [chapter in book entitled GENOCIDE DENIALS & THE LAW, Oxford University Press 2011] Liberty (essay to be published in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GLOBAL JUSTICE, Springer 2011) Military Chaplains and Religious Freedom in the Military [entries published in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (edited by Paul Finkelman, Routledge 2006)] Amicus Briefs [chapter in APPELLATE PRACTICE FOR THE MARYLAND LAWYER B STATE AND FEDERAL (edited by Andrew Levy and Paul Mark Sandler [MICPEL, 2014]) Hate Speech [chapter in GROUP DEFAMATION AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH (edited by Eric Freedman and Monroe Freedman, Greenwood Publishing, 1995)] Religious Liberty in the Military [chapter in INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHURCH AND STATE (edited by Menachem Mor, Creighton U. Press, 1993)]
Amicus Briefs Lee v. Fairfax County School Board (2016) United States Supreme Court
Neustadter v. Holy Cross Court of Appeals of Maryland (2011)
United States of America v. Jonathan J. Pollard U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (2000)
Hack et al. v. Yale University U.S. District Court for the Second Circuit (2000)
Recent Presentations Civil Liberties in Uncivil Times, Johns Hopkins University (four lectures, 10-11/18) Defending Truth and Sacred Cows, UB Book Authors Luncheon (5/3/18) Comparing Civil Liberties in U.S. and Israel, B’Nai Israel Torah Café (3/13/18) Comparing Civil Liberties in U.S. and Israel, Beth Tfiloh (2/14/18 & 2/21/18) Crosses on Public Property, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU (10/26/17) Defending Truth and Sacred Cows, Holy Wars, {Book Launch / UB Faculty, 3/9/17} Is Law-Review Scholarship Passé?, UB Faculty (3/31/16) Defending Truth, UB ARED@ Talk, University of Baltimore (2/4/16) Journalism in the Middle East, Beth Tfiloh Adult Education (11/23/15) Jonathan Pollard Case, UB Faculty (11/5/15) Academic Freedom at Risk: The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement Against Israel, UB (4/27/15) Jonathan Pollard Case, Dan Rodricks Show, WYPR (4/4/14) Murray v. Curlett, Odyssey Series, Johns Hopkins University (3/31/14) Prayer in Carroll County Case, Dan Rodricks Show, WYPR (3/28/14)
Scholarly Articles The Decline of Free Speech on the Postmodern Campus:The Troubling Evolution of the . Heckler’s Veto [to be published in next issue of QUINNIPIAC LAW REVIEW] Sacred Cows, Holy Wars: Exploring the Limits of Law in the Regulation of Raw Milk and Kosher Meat, 13 DEPAUL BUSINESS & COMMERCIAL LAW JOURNAL 1 (2015) Confronting Bigotry: It s Not Just Name-Calling, 5 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM 129 (2013) Compelling Orthodoxy: Myth and Mystique in the Marketing of Legal Education , 10 NEW HAMPSHIRE LAW REVIEW 273 (2012) In An Academic Voice: Antisemitism and Academy Bias, 4 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM 349 (2012) Antisemitism in the Academic Voice: Confronting Bigotry under the First Amendment, GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM: A CRISIS OF MODERNITY (2012 ) Taking Obama at His Words, VOX - THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY, York University, UK, May 2010) Betraying Truth: Ethics Abuse in Middle East Reporting, 2 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM 139 (2010)
Bloodstains on A Code of Honor: The Murderous Marginalization of Women in the Islamic World, 30 WOMEN’S RIGHTS LAW REPORTER 407 (2009) Torture, Truth Serum, and Ticking Bombs: Toward a Pragmatic Perspective of Coercive Interrogation, 39 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO LAW JOURNAL 329 (2008) Exorcising the Exercized: A Response to Professor Gordon, 57 JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 310 (2007) Defending Truth: Legal and Psychological Aspects of Holocaust Denial, CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY (November 2007) Civil Liberties in Uncivil Times: The Perilous Quest to Preserve American Freedoms, 2 LONDON LAW REVIEW 2 (2007) Scientific and Scholarly Boycotts of Israel: Abusing the Academic Enterprise, 21 TOURO LAW REVIEW 989 (2006) Incitement in the Mosques: Testing the Limits of Free Speech and Religious Liberty, 27 WHITTIER LAW REVIEW 3 (2005) A War of Words, 10 IPI GLOBAL JOURNALIST 1 (Spring, 2004) Blunderbuss Scholarship: Perverting the Original Intent and Plain Meaning of the Second Amendment, 32 UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE LAW REVIEW 127 (2003) Controversial Speakers on Campus: Liberties, Limitations, and Common-Sense Guidelines, 12 ST. THOMAS LAW REVIEW 39 (1999) Holocaust Denial and the First Amendment: The Quest for Truth in a Free Society, 6 GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW 35 (1997) The Tintinnabulation of Bell's Letters, 36 WASHBURN LAW JOURNAL 18 (1996) Political Correctness Askew: Excesses in the Pursuit of Minds and Manners, 63 TENNESSEE LAW REVIEW 689 (1996) Radfems and the First Amendment, {Review of DEFENDING PORNOGRAPHY, by Nadine Strossen (Scribners 1995)}, THE DEFENDER (March 1995) Lawyering Askew: Excesses in the Pursuit of Fees and Justice, 74 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 301 (1994) Mad Dogs and Englishmen: A Ditty Dedicated to First-Year Law Students, Confused on the Merits, 17 NOVA LAW REVIEW 857 (1993) Religious Liberty in the Military: The First Amendment under Friendly Fire, 9 JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 471 (1993) Feminism Awry: Excesses in the Pursuit of Rights and Trifles, 42 JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 1 (1992) [see also response to/correspondence about article in 42 JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 465 (1993)] On Letters and Law Reviews: A Jaded Rejoinder, 24 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 201 (1991) To Stimulate, Provoke, or Incite? First Amendment Purposes and Group Defamation, 3 ST. THOMAS LAW REVIEW 49 (1991) Racism in Higher Education: Brown s Effect on Campus Bigotry, 7 HARVARD BLACKLETTER JNL. 139 (1990) Scholarship Amok: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure, 103 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 926 (1990) [see also Scholarship Admired: Responses to Professor Lasson, 103 HARVARD L. REV. 2085 (1990)] Free Exercise in the Free State: Maryland's Role in Religious Liberty and the First Amendment, 31 JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE 201 (1989) Free Exercise in the Free State: Maryland's Role in the Development of First Amendment Jurisprudence, 18 BALTIMORE LAW REVIEW 81 (1988)
Racism in Great Britain: Drawing the Line on Free Speech, 7 BOSTON COLLEGE THIRD WORLD JOURNAL 161 (1987) Racial Defamation as Free Speech: Abusing the First Amendment, COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 11 (1986) In Defense of Group-Libel Laws, or Why the First Amendment Should Not Protect Nazis, II HUMAN RIGHTS ANNUAL 289 (1985) Civil Liberties for Homosexuals: The Law in Limbo, 10 DAYTON LAW REVIEW 645 (1985) Group Libel Versus Free Speech: When Big Brother Should Butt In, 23 DUQUESNE LAW REVIEW 77 (1984) Mockingbirds Among the Brethren, 18 AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 44l (1981) Homosexual Rights: The Law in Flux and Conflict, 9 BALTIMORE LAW REVIEW 47 (1979) A History of Potomac River Conflicts (May 1976; prepared for Working Conference on Potomac Waters, Harpers Ferry, W.Va.) The Asphalting of America, 2 MARYLAND LAW FORUM 56 (1972) A History of the Appalachian Coal Miners / published by the Environmental Protective Agency in 1972 as part of a larger study entitled COAL AND THE ENVIRONMENT: LEGAL PROBLEMS OF RECLAMATION Historical Perspectives on the Political and Mercantile Development of the Chesapeake Bay (published by the Department of Interior in 1970 as part of a larger study entitled CHESAPEAKE BAY IN LEGAL PERSPECTIVE) Religious Freedom and the Church-State Relationship in Maryland, 14 THE CATHOLIC LAWYER 4 (1968) To Kill a Mockingbird, 26 MARYLAND LAW REVIEW 143 (1966) Punitive Damages for an Insured Defendant?, 25 MARYLAND LAW REVIEW 326 (1965)
Letter Re: Decline, Fall, Rinse, Repeat, THE NEW YORKER, October 10, 2011
Selected Essays/Op-Eds What’s Right With America, BALTIMORE SUN (7/4/18) If The O’s Trade Machado, They Can Kiss Much of Their Fan Base Goodbye, BALTIMORE SUN (5/23/18) Palestinians in Baltimore: Who’s Paying?, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (4/4/18) Why Trump Is Right on Jerusalem, AMERICAN THINKER (12/7/17) {also appeared in NEW ENGLISH REVIEW and DAILY CALLER} Let DeVos Speak at UB, BALTIMORE SUN (9/14/17) Celebrating the Exodus in Style, TIMES OF ISRAEL (3/10/17) Why Trump Should Move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, JERUSALEM POST (1/15/17) Political Parties Split on Attitudes Toward Israel, BALTIMORE SUN (7/21/16) Media Wrong All Along on Trump, BALTIMORE SUN (3/25/16) Journalistic Ethics and Mideast Reporting, INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY (1/23/16) Pollard’s Punitive Parole, JERUSALEM POST (12/20/15) America’s Foolish Policy, JERUSALEM POST (6/23/15) The Perplexing Portrait of Baltimore, WALL STREET JOURNAL (5/1/15) Lone Soldiers in the Holy Land, BALTIMORE SUN (1/11/15) Obama’s Tin Ear, JERUSALEM POST (1/18/14) Academic Extremism Threatens Academic Values, BALTIMORE SUN (1/29/14) Freeing Pollard Benefits All, BALTIMORE SUN (2/28/13)
Olympic Moments, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (8/3/12) An Upside-Down World, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (6/15/12) Eye on Bigots, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (5/18/12) Presidents and Pundits, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (4/19 /12) Skewed News, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (3/16/12) Real Religious Services, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (2/217/12) Here I Am, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (1/20/12) Nevermore, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (12/16/11) Obama’s Israel Woes, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (11/18/11) Gilad Redux, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (10/21/11) Getting It Right, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (9/23/11) No More Sha-Still, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (8/26/11) Melting Pot or Cauldron?, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (7/22/11) What's Wrong With Obama?, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (6/24/11) Israel in Full Bloom, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (5/27/11) Let My People Go!, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (4/22/11) The Chosen Players, CHICAGO JEWISH NEWS (4/28/11) On the Ball, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 4/8/11) Life vs. Evil, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (3/25/11) Law, Order, and Circumstances, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (2/24/11) Lincoln and the Jews, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 2/11/11) Human Rights Watch? BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (1/27/11) Fictionalizing the Facts on Pollard (with Lawrence Korb), JERUSALEM POST (blog, 1/27/11) Foes Hawk Fiction in Israeli Spy Case, ARIZONA REPUBLIC (12/29/10) Silent Nights, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (12/26/10) Wise and Proper, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (11/26/10) Pollard Push, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (10/25/10) Calling Israel Home, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 10/15/10) Burn A Book?, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (9/24/10) Getting It Right, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (8/27/10) Silent Sounds, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (7/23/10) So What Else Is New, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (6/25/10) Jewish American Veterans, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (5/28/10) Justice and the A Jewish Seat, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 5/21/10) Dreams and Betrayal, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 4/30/10) News and Nonsense, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (4/23/10) Forgotten Hero, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (3/26/10) This Year in Cambridge, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 3/19/10) Haitian Stars, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (2/26/10) Thirsting After Jewish History, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 2/5/10) France: Part II, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (1/22/10) French Anti-Semitism, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (12/15/09) Eyes on Free Exercise, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (11/27/09) Judicial Error, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (10/23/09) Jews in Jail, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (9/25/09) Body Parts and Blood Libels, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (8/28/09) Is Gilad Shalit on the Radar?, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 8/7/09) Chabad’s Star, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (7/24/09)
Dogma, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 7/17/09) Bloodstains on a "Code of Honor," BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 3/27/09) Pollard Languishes, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (2/27/09) Lost Souls, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (1/23/09) Charisma and Kindness, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (12/26/08) Bringing Baseball to Israel, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 8/15/08) Mamaloshen at Hopkins, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 6/13/08) The Gentleman from Hagerstown, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 2/29/08) Up In Arms, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 12/7/07) Pro-gun Scholars Twist Constitution, BALTIMORE SUN (11/21/07) Some Learning Opportunities from the Imus Affair, MARYLAND DAILY RECORD (4/27/07) Holocaust Denial . . . Six Decades Later, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 4/13/07) Passover and Jonathan Pollard, ISRAELINSIDER (4/1/07) A Winter of Discontent, ISRAELINSIDER (1/24/07) Why We (American Jews) Should Be Thankful, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story,11/17/06) Hunkering With Israel, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (8/11/06) Assault on Intellect, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 6/2/06) Sounds of Silence, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (9/23/05) Final Judgement, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (9/9/05) AJews, You Are Free,@ BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (5/6/05) Incitement in the Mosques, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 4/15/05) Handling the Truth, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 7/9/04) Why Jews Love Baseball, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (4/2/04) Backing Up Pollard, JEWSWEEK (2/9/04) Zogby Zigzags, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (1/2/04) It’s Time to be Fair to Jonathan Pollard, ISRAELINSIDER (10/29/04) Life in Israel, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (11/04) Death, Deadlines, and the Media, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 8/15/03) When Jews Ban Books, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (5/9/03) The Silence of the Muslims, MARYLAND DAILY RECORD (3/22/03) Status Quota, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (1/31/03} Handling Hatred in the Ivory Tower, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (10/18/02} Take Back Joseph’s Tomb, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (1/25/02) International Red Cross Must Include Israel, BALTIMORE SUN (11/27/01) Why We’re Thankful, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (11/23/01) Great Smoke Screens, Big Lies, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (10/26/01) Best Interests, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (9/ /01) Mideast Reporting Gone Awry, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (8/31/01) Hedonism in the Holy Land, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (7/6/01) Israel’s Voice Muffled Amid Hail of Stones, BALTIMORE SUN (12/3/00) What If He Wins, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (11/3/00) Jerusalem Policy Makes No Sense, BALTIMORE SUN (9/27/00) Jerusalem, Where?, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (9/1/00) Holocaust Deniers Can’t Be Ignored, BALTIMORE SUN (4/2/00) In Defense of Rocker, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (3/3/00) Lessons Learned, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (12/31/99) Why Hillary Can’t Dilly-Dally on Pollard, JEWISH PRESS (12/10/99) The Importance of Being Assertive, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (7/14/99) The Demonization of Jonathan Pollard, VIEWPOINT MAGAZINE (Spring 1999)
Pollard Treated Unfairly, USA TODAY (1/18/99) Justice and Jonathan Pollard, WASHINGTON POST (1/2/99) [with Irwin Cotler, Angelo Codevilla, and Alan Dershowitz] Why Clinton Should Pardon Pollard, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (10/30/98) Fluid Situation, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (9/18/98) Pollard Case Is One for the Legal Books, BALTIMORE SUN (5/6/98) Ax-Grinding Politics Leads to Unequal Justice, NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (4/27/98) Dash to the Future, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (4/24/98) Twain’s Admiration of Jews Conflicted, BALTIMORE SUN (3/22/98) Passage of Religious Freedom Act Necessary to Fulfill Maryland’s National Leadership Role, BALTIMORE SUN (3/4/98) Denial on the Campuses, BALTIMORE SUNDAY SUN (1/4/98) Unequal Justice, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (11/28/97) One Righteous Gentile, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (8/29/97) Jews and the Fourth of July, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (7/4/97) Pollard and Priorities, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (3/14/97) Long Overdue, JERUSALEM POST, (1/29/97) The Astonishing Year(s) of 1996, BALTIMORE SUN (12/30/96) Free Speech Faces Hostile Environment, BALTIMORE SUNDAY SUN (2/11/96) Why Pollard Should Be Pardoned, MIAMI HERALD (12/13/95) The Jews of Scotland, LOS ANGELES JEWISH JOURNAL (October 7, 1994) (also in BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES and elsewhere) Labor Is Losing Ground in the Workplace, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (9/5/94) Fight Muhammad's 'Secret' with Facts, BALTIMORE SUN (6/13/94) Campus Is Hotbed for Hatemongers in Name of 'Correctness', PHILADELPHIA JEWISH EXPONENT (4/22/94) Campuses and Common Sense, BALTIMORE SUN (3/16/94) Jonathan Pollard: A More Genuine Notion of Justice, BALTIMORE SUN (12/30/93) Care for Those Who Wore the Uniform, BALTIMORE SUN (11/12/93) Free Speech and Farrakhan, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (8/27/93) Groveling at the Feet of Football's Greedy Lords, BALTIMORE SUN (7/8/93) Jonathan Pollard: The Travesty of U.S. Justice Continues, DETROIT JEWISH NEWS (4 /24/92) A Field of Dreams Needs a History, BALTIMORE SUN (3/11/92) What's Right with America, BALTIMORE EVENING SUN (7/5/91) Our First Televised Genocide, BALTIMORE SUN (4/13/91) Reasonable Doubts / CITY PAPER (cover story, 3/7/91) The Trouble with Protest, BALTIMORE EVENING SUN (1/25/91) Free Speech, It's Great for Hate, BALTIMORE SUN (10/23/90) Some Words are Injurious ... Some Cause A Raging Storm, BALTIMORE EVENING SUN (12/15/90) Patent Pending: 200 Years of Brilliant and Bizarre Inventions, BALTIMORE SUN MAGAZINE (cover story, 5/6/90) Truth, Justice, Peace... and Narrow Minds, BALTIMORE SUN (1/27/90) The Endless Ordeal of Anatoly Shcharansky, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (cover story, 3/19/82) Bo Williams’ Diary, CITY PAPER (cover story, February 1980) Joseph Mendelevich Is Alive and Starving In A Soviet Prison Camp, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES (l0/21/79)
The Bureaucrat / THE WASHINGTONIAN (February 1977; November 1977) A Cool Night in September, BALTIMORE (May 1977) The Physician / THE WASHINGTONIAN (October 1976; winner of 1976 Distinguished Health Journalism Award) Two Workers / THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY (October 197l) awarded a 197l Sidney Hillman Prize
Works in Progress
{articles} Romance in the Workplace: The Disappearance of Due Process [draft] Scattershot Scholarship: Perverting the Original Intent and Plain Meaning of the Second Amendment [draft]
{books} WHEN AMERICAN FAIRNESS FAILS: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Struggle for Justice for Jonathan Pollard HEALING SAFELY: What Doctors (And Their Patients) Should Know about Medical Malpractice (co-authored with Sheldon Margulies)
Personal Married (Barbara) with three children and sixteen grandchildren
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