Number	13476
Subject	Courts
Source	Lingua Franca (Mamaroneck, N.Y.)
State	None
Year	1996
Publication Date	September - October, 1996
Summary	Lingua Franca investigates the dangers involved in using academics as expert witnesses and allowing them to testify, possibly compromising their scholarship for modern-day political causes. The article focuses on a Colorado case that outraged many homosexuals by making it illegal for any state agency to designate homosexual, lesbian or bisexual "orientation, conduct, practices, or relationships" as the basis for protected legal status. During the trial, University of Chicago classicist, Martha Nussbaum, testified on Plato's views of anal intercourse, swaying the outcome of the trial and causing some of her colleagues to accuse her of perjury. (Sept. - Oct. 1996)
Category	None
Pages	None
Keywords	Mendelsohn The Stand Judges Lawyers Academic honesty Translation 13 pgs.
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