Alan Dershowitz

Extracted Attributes

• Awards

  Guggenheim Fellowship

• Education

  Bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College (1959); JD from Yale Law School (1962)

• Full Name

  Alan Morton Dershowitz

• Date of Birth

  1938-09-01

• Academic Title

  Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law (Emeritus)

• Place of Birth

  Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Legal Success Rate

  Won 13 of 15 murder and attempted murder cases handled as a criminal appellate lawyer as of 2009

• Tenure Achievement

  Youngest law professor to be granted tenure in Harvard University’s history (1967)

Timeline

• Born in Brooklyn, New York. (Source: Wikidata)

  1938-09-01

• Graduated from Yale Law School, where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal. (Source: Britannica)

  1962-01-01

• Joined the faculty of Harvard Law School. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1964-01-01

• Became the youngest law professor to receive tenure in the history of Harvard University. (Source: Britannica)

  1967-01-01

• Successfully overturned the conviction of Harry Reems. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1976-01-01

• Successfully appealed the conviction of Claus von Bülow for the attempted murder of his wife. (Source: Britannica)

  1984-01-01

• Appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1993-01-01

• Served as appellate adviser for O.J. Simpson's defense team during his murder trial. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1995-01-01

• Negotiated a controversial non-prosecution agreement for Jeffrey Epstein in Florida. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2006-01-01

• Retired from his teaching position at Harvard Law School. (Source: Britannica)

  2013-01-01

• Joined the defense team for Harvey Weinstein. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2018-01-01

• Represented President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2020-01-01

Alan Dershowitz

Alan Morton Dershowitz ( 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. Dershowitz is the author of several books about politics and the law, including Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985), the basis of the 1990 film; Chutzpah (1991); Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O. J. Simpson Case (1996); The Case for Israel (2003); and The Case for Peace (2005). His two most recent works are The Case Against Impeaching Trump (2018) and Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo (2019). An ardent supporter of Israel, he has written several books on the Arab–Israeli conflict.

Web Search Results

• Alan Dershowitz | Biography, Cases, Books, & Facts

  Alan Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American lawyer and author known for his writings and media appearances in which he strongly and often controversially defended civil liberties, in particular those regarding freedom of speech. He also garnered attention for his involvement in numerous prominent legal cases. [...] Dershowitz earned a bachelor’s degree (1959) from Brooklyn College (now part of the City University of New York) and then attended law school at Yale University, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduating (1962), he served as a law clerk, first for David Bazelon, who was chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg. Dershowitz joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 1964 and three years later became the youngest law professor to be granted tenure in Harvard University’s history; he retired from teaching in 2013. [...] In other notable proceedings, Dershowitz won a new trial for wealthy socialite Claus von Bülow, arguing the inadmissibility of evidence used against him when he was convicted in 1982 of the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny von Bülow. In 1991 Dershowitz secured a reduced sentence for disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, and the following year he represented real estate mogul Leona Helmsley in her appeal of her conviction for tax evasion. Perhaps most famously, he was part of the team that successfully defended former football star O.J. Simpson in his 1995 trial for the murders of his former wife and her friend. In 2011 he became part of the legal team for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Quick Facts In full: : Alan Morton Dershowitz

• Alan Dershowitz - Wikipedia

  Dershowitz had a contract to provide advice to Joey Allaham, a lobbyist working for the Qatari government. In January 2018, Dershowitz questioned claims that Qatar funds terrorist groups, including Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by several countries, including Israel, the U.S., and the European Union. Dershowitz wrote, "Qatar is quickly becoming the Israel of the Gulf States, surrounded by enemies, subject to boycotts and unrealistic demands, and struggling for its survival." [...] he was also to blame for pushing the ACLU further into partisan politics. [...] of torture based on information revealed during such an interrogation. Robert Fothergill's 2003 play The Dershowitz Protocol is named after Dershowitz.

• Quick Facts: Alan Dershowitz | ALL RESOURCES

  Dershowitz represented and was personal friends with the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender, who committed suicide in prison in August 2019 according to authorities. Beginning in 1996, Dershowitz frequently socialized with Epstein, including spending time at his private island in the Caribbean.​​ Dershowitz helped Epstein get an extremely lenient and controversial sentence in a case where Epstein pled guilty to two counts of soliciting prostitution, one involving an underage girl, which would later spark outrage and lead to renewed interest and investigations into Epstein’s crimes. [...] For decades, Dershowitz has been one of Israel’s most aggressive and high-profile supporters in the US. He has frequently appeared on television and elsewhere defending Israeli human rights abuses and war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, including stating he would defend Israel at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In his biography on the Harvard Law School website, he boasted of being described as “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” [...] In 2014, Dershowitz published “Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel’s Just War Against Hamas,” just weeks after Israel ended a devastating seven-week military assault on Palestinians trapped in tiny, besieged Gaza, killing more than 2,200 people, the vast majority civilians, including more than 550 children. Rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch documented evidence of widespread war crimes committed by Israeli forces, including targeting medical personnel and UN schools sheltering civilians.

• Alan Dershowitz, Devil's Advocate

  pretend she was perfect, didn’t try to give a constructed narrative,” Boies told me. [...] Dershowitz wrote a book about the case, “Reversal of Fortune,” which was published in 1986. Nora Ephron, reviewing it for the Times, noted wryly, “Throughout, in the venerable tradition of defense lawyers who write books about themselves, Mr. Dershowitz made brilliant decisions no one else would ever have been brave or intelligent enough even to consider.” Dershowitz wrote a letter to the editor complaining that Ephron was deriding his work in order to help get a friend’s book about the same case published. (The friend published no such book—and, Ephron replied, wasn’t even a friend.) [...] constantly telling me, ‘I own the police department—I have friends that owe me favors.’ ”

• THE TRIALS OF ALAN DERSHOWITZ - DOC NYC

  BUY TICKETS DOC NYC FESTIVAL ENCORE Alan Dershowitz is a fierce criminal defense attorney known for representing infamous clients like Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, and whose unwavering defense of constitutional rights and civil liberties is both admirable and divisive. The film explores his notable victories and lesser-known losses, as well as his court battles with one of Epstein’s victims, who had accused him of sexual misconduct. Narrated by Dershowitz with insights from Gloria Allred, Mike Tyson, and Megyn Kelly, this engaging documentary unveils a fresh perspective on the provocative and controversial lawyer. Director: John Curtin Producer: John Curtin The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with filmmaker John Curtin.

• Award

  Guggenheim Fellowship

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Brooklyn College

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  screenwriter

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  9/1/1938

• Place Of Birth

  Brooklyn