Alan Dershowitz
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Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.
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- Jewish Blood Is No Longer Cheap
- Ten Big Anti-Israel Lies
- Palestinianism
- Taking the Stand
- Spinning the Law
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Key facts
- Born
- Alan Morton Dershowitz , ( 1938-09-01 ) September 1, 1938 (age 87) , New York City, U.S.
- Education
- Brooklyn College ( BA ) Yale University ( LLB )
- Occupations
- Attorney law professor
- Political party
- Democratic (1959–2024) Independent (2024–2026) Republican (2026–present)
- Spouses
- Sue Barlach ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1959 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1976 ) Carolyn Cohen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1986 )
- Children
- 3 (including Elon )
- Website
- dersh .substack .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Alan Morton Dershowitz (/ˈdɜːrʃəwɪts/ DUR-shə-wits; born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.
Dershowitz has taken on high-profile and often unpopular causes and clients. As of 2009, he had won 13 of the 15 murder and attempted murder cases he handled as a criminal appellate lawyer. Dershowitz has represented such celebrity clients as Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Julian Assange, and Jim Bakker. Major legal victories have included two successful appeals that overturned convictions, first for Harry Reems in 1976, then in 1984 for Claus von Bülow, who had been convicted of the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny. In 1995, Dershowitz served as the appellate adviser on the murder trial of O. J. Simpson as part of the legal "Dream Team" alongside Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey. He was a member of Harvey Weinstein's defense team in 2018 and of President Donald Trump's defense team in his first impeachment trial in 2020. He was a member of Jeffrey Epstein's defense team and helped to negotiate a controversial 2006 non-prosecution agreement on Epstein's behalf.
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