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Sep 01, 1938 Brooklyn, New York, United States 85 years old
American lawyer, author
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About Alan Dershowitz
- Alan Morton Dershowitz (; born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and academic.
- He is a scholar of United States constitutional law and criminal law who has been described as a "noted civil libertarian".
- He began his teaching career at Harvard Law School where, in 1967, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor of law in its history.
- He held the Felix Frankfurter professorship there from 1993 until his retirement in December 2013, and has been a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.
- He is also a prominent voice on the Arab–Israeli conflict and has written a number of books on the subject. Dershowitz has been involved in a number of high-profile legal cases.
- As a criminal appellate lawyer, he won 13 of the 15 murder and attempted murder cases which he had handled, and has represented a series of celebrity clients, including Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, and Jim Bakker.
- His most notable cases included the successful appeal of Claus von Bülow's 1982 conviction for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny, and the 1995 O.
- J.
- Simpson murder trial, in which he served on the legal "Dream Team", alongside Johnnie Cochran and F.
- Lee Bailey, as an appellate adviser.Dershowitz is the author of a number of books about politics and the law, including Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985), the basis of the 1990 film; Chutzpah (1991); Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J.
- Simpson Case (1996); The Case for Israel (2003); Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights (2004); and The Case for Peace (2005).
- His two most recent works were both published in 2018: The Case Against Impeaching Trump and The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott is Anti-Semitic.
