As a case in point, he mentioned an evening he spent at Harvard Law School last fall, debating Professor Lawrence Lessig on the future of intellectual property in cyberspace.
That was why he confronted Rudi Dutschke, leader of Germany's students, on a trailer in Freiburg at the height of the unrest of 1968 (pictured above): not hiding away like Raymond Aron at the Sorbonne, but vigorously debating, professor with student, as he did all his life.One sharp spat was with Milton Friedman.
"Roberts has the better of the debate," Professor Issacharoff said.
"The religious Zionists in Israel, they have many, many debates — debates about education, debates about the religion itself, political debates," Professor Cohen said.
At last month's faculty meeting, about 150 professors, an unusually high turnout, debated Professor Benhabib's resolution calling for a formal commitment to broad freedoms.
A different take was offered by Steve Calandrillo, a law professor at the University of Washington who has debated Professor Markel on this issue.
Back in 2002, when the merits of going to war with Iraq were being debated, Professor Nordhaus published a thorough analysis of the potential economic costs.
An e-mail exchange followed that encounter in Charleston, leading to an invitation to debate Professor Singer at Princeton on March 25 , 2002
Only someone like Mr. Brown, who hasn't spent any time around us or has only passing acquaintance with us, could say, as he did during a debate: "Professor Warren claimed she was a Native American, a person of color.
" The judges, who included The Independent critic Anthony Quinn and the actor Fiona Shaw, reached their decision in just under two hours "after a long, passionate and generous debate", Professor Lee said.
In a dramatic intervention in the public health debate, Professor Steve Field criticises parents, mothers-to-be, the very overweight, smokers and drinkers for damaging their own health, or their children's, through irresponsible actions.
