Frank Menetrez, a UCLA-trained lawyer and PhD philosopher, has published a very illuminating analysis of the main charges and counter-charges in this tenure battle about which we have written previously. Not entirely surprisingly, it turns out that the rhetorical volume of Professor Dershowitz's charges is inversely proportional to their factual and analytical credibility.
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