ALAN DERSHOWITZ is a Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender–the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.”

     He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Dershowitz, a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg.

     He has also published more than 100 articles in magazines and journals and more than 300 of his articles have appeared in syndication in 50 national daily newspapers. Professor Dershowitz is the author of 27 fiction and non-fiction works with a worldwide audience. His most recent titles include 

• Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origin of Rights
• The Case For Israel
• The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved
• Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence 
• Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways
• Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism

In addition to his numerous law review articles and books about criminal and constitutional law, he has written, taught and lectured about history, philosophy, psychology, literature, mathematics, theology, music, sports–and even delicatessens.