Professor Alan Dershowitz

Professor Alan Dershowitz

Professor Emeritus Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer, jurist, author, and political commentator. He is a prominent scholar on United States constitutional law and criminal law, and a leading defender of civil liberties. He spent most of his career at Harvard Law School where he became the youngest full professor of law in its history. He held the Felix Frankfurter professorship there until his retirement in December 2013. He attended Brooklyn College and received his A.B., Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal,and graduated first in his class with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Alan is also a Co-Chair on the International Academic Board of Advisors for ISGAP, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.