"Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Torture"

Here's a fine and well-deserved portrait of Harvard Law School's best-known and least accomplished faculty member. (Folks outside law don't seem to know this, but Dershowitz hasn't made a substantive contribution to legal scholarship in two decades or more. As Richard Posner has noted: "Although he is a professor at Harvard Law School, Dershowitz is not a scholar.")

Despite his affection for torture, by the way, Professor Dershowitz signed the recent Harvard-initiated letter to Congress about abuses at Abu Ghraib, one of several indications that that letter didn't go far enough (and one of several reasons I didn't sign it).