World War II veteran and former Nazi hunter Michel Thomas passionately defended his life, denouncing as “lies” a newspaper article he said had defamed him, at a mock trial at Boalt Hall earlier this month. The trial, sponsored by the School of Journalism and the Boalt Hall School of Law, pitted freedom of the press against a person’s right to preserve his good reputation.

One More Attempt to Clear His name (Berkeleyan, April 16, 2003)