Alan Dershowitz

Alan M. Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, has been called the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School and joined the Harvard Law Faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg. He has published more than 1,000 articles in magazines, newspapers, journals, and blogs such as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, and The Huffington Post. Dershowitz is the author of numerous bestselling books, including his autobiography, “Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law” and the recently-published “The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties.”