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Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer, jurist, and political commentator. He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is known for his career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has spent most of his career at Harvard, where, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor in its history, until Noam Elkies took the record. Dershowitz still holds the record as the youngest person to become a professor of law there. As a criminal appellate lawyer, Dershowitz has won thirteen out of the fifteen murder and attempted murder cases he has handled. He successfully argued to overturn the conviction of Claus von Bülow for the attempted murder of Bülow's wife, Sunny. Dershowitz was the appellate advisor for the defense in the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer
2015
2003
Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation
2004
How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence
2007
The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process
2020
Protecting Free Speech from Big Tech, Progressives, and Universities
2021
1991
1992
The Story of My Relationship with My Most Challenging Client
2019
A Guide for Unaroused Voters
2016
A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism
2007
The Twentieth Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation
2006
The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo
2019
Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11
2008
1999
2001
The Newest Attack on Peace, Human Rights, and Democracy
2025
A Knife That Cuts Both Ways
2006
The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case
1996
Inside the Von Bulow Case
1986
A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights
2000
1998
Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age
2002
How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000
2001
My Life in the Law
2013
2014
1994
1994
1983
2018
Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace
2008
2019
How Can We Now Stop Iran from Getting Nukes?
2015
2003
or, Why I Left the Left But Can't Join the Right
2020
How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved
2005
2019
Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice that Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law
2000
Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences
2022
And How to Refute Them with Truth
2024
2010
In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century
1997
Courtroom Battles That Changed the Nation, 1913 - Today
2006
How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy
2017
How to End Hamas Barbarism
2023
By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists
2006
Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge
2002