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Alan M. Dershowitz

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September 01, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

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http://www.alandershowitz.com/

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Politics, Nonfiction

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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...more

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Edwards' Jury Couldn't Decide and for Good Reason

It is a wise person who knows when not to decide. The jury in the John Edwards case rendered exactly the right verdict. Of course they couldn't make up their mind on most of the charges. No rational person could. The judge essentially instructed them to get into John Edward's mind (as well as into the minds of several other actors in this political soap opera) and to determine precisely what hi... read more »

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Books by Alan M. Dershowitz

Average rating: 3.60 · 1,728 ratings · 282 reviews · 45 distinct works

	The Case for Israel 3.64 avg rating — 435 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Letters to a Young Lawyer 3.46 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Just Revenge 3.66 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Reversal of Fortune: Inside the Von Bulow Case 3.75 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	My rating:
	America on Trial: Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation 3.55 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence 3.78 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Chutzpah 3.36 avg rating — 59 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law 3.67 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Advocate's Devil 3.27 avg rating — 63 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Best Defense 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a public safety hazard, don't see the danger in the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.”
― Alan M. Dershowitz

tags: constitution , freedom , gun-rights , guns , justice , politics , second-amendment

8 people liked it

“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.”
― Alan M. Dershowitz

tags: atheism , god , pascal

8 people liked it

“A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.”
― Alan M. Dershowitz

tags: education , libraries , political-commentary

4 people liked it

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