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.
Books
Terror Tunnels
2014
Fundamental Cases
The Twentieth Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation
2006
Why Terrorism Works
Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge
2002
The Case for Liberalism in an Age of Extremism
or, Why I Left the Left But Can't Join the Right
2020
The Price of Principle
Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences
2022
Sexual Mccarthyism
1998
The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence
2019
The Abuse Excuse
1994
The Case Against the Iran Deal
How Can We Now Stop Iran from Getting Nukes?
2015
The Case Against Impeaching Trump
2018
Taking the Stand
My Life in the Law
2013
Is There a Right to Remain Silent?
Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11
2008
Rights from Wrongs
A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights
2000
Supreme Injustice
How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000
2001
The Case Against the Democratic House Impeaching Trump
2019
Chutzpah
1991
Blasphemy
How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence
2007
Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson
A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism
2007
Trials of the Century
Courtroom Battles That Changed the Nation, 1913 - Today
2006
Trumped Up
How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy
2017
The Case Against Israel's Enemies
Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace
2008
What Israel Means to Me
By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists
2006
Contrary to Popular Opinion
1992
Reversal of Fortune
Inside the Von Bulow Case
1986
The Case for Israel
2003
The Genesis of Justice
Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice that Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law
2000
Defending Israel
The Story of My Relationship with My Most Challenging Client
2019
Electile Dysfunction
A Guide for Unaroused Voters
2016
America Declares Independence
2003
Reasonable Doubts
The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case
1996
Cancel Culture
The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process
2020
Shouting Fire
Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age
2002
The Vanishing American Jew
In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century
1997
Just Revenge
1999
War Against the Jews
How to End Hamas Barbarism
2023
Abraham
The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer
2015
Preemption
A Knife That Cuts Both Ways
2006
The Best Defense
1983
Guilt by Accusation
The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo
2019
The Case for Peace
How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved
2005
Case Against the New Censorship
Protecting Free Speech from Big Tech, Progressives, and Universities
2021
The Advocate's Devil
1994
Letters to a Young Lawyer
2001
America on Trial
Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation
2004
The Trials of Zion
2010
