Alan Dershowitz
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American lawyer, author, (1938 - ), New York, New York, USA
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Constitutional Law
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International Law
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Alan Dershowitz's Degrees
- Bachelors Political Science Brooklyn College
Why Is Alan Dershowitz Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American 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.
Alan Dershowitz's Published Works
Published Works
- Why Terrorism Works : Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge (2002) (285)
- The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century (1997) (67)
- Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (2006) (64)
- The Abuse Excuse: And Other Cop-Outs, Sob Stories, and Evasions of Responsibility (1994) (64)
- The Torture Warrant: A Response to Professor Strauss (2003) (47)
- Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 (2001) (43)
- Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age (2002) (40)
- The Case for Israel (2003) (35)
- Rights from wrongs : a secular theory of the origins of rights (2005) (34)
- The best defense (1983) (28)
- Psychiatry in the Legal Process: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (1968) (24)
- Preventive Confinement: A Suggested Framework for Constitutional Analysis (1973) (23)
- The Law of Dangerousness: Some Fictions about Predictions (1970) (21)
- Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case (1996) (17)
- The role of psychiatry in the sentencing process. (1978) (15)
- Is it Necessary to Apply “Physical Pressure” to Terrorists – and to Lie About it? (1989) (14)
- Declaring the Death Penalty Unconstitutional (1970) (13)
- The Paper Label Sentences: Critiques (1977) (12)
- The Genesis of justice (2000) (12)
- Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, And Law (1967) (12)
- Criminal Sentencing in the United States: An Historical and Conceptual Overview (1976) (11)
- Reasonable Doubts: The O.J. Simpson Case and the Criminal Justice System (1996) (11)
- Fair and certain punishment : report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Criminal Sentencing (1976) (11)
- Sexual Mccarthyism: Clinton, Starr, And The Emerging Constitutional Crisis (1998) (10)
- The Religious Right (2011) (10)
- Life Is Not a Dramatic Narrative (2017) (8)
- Is There a Right to Remain Silent?: Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11 (2008) (7)
- Indeterminate Confinement: Letting the Therapy Fit the Harm (1974) (7)
- Reversal of fortune : inside the von Bulow case (1986) (7)
- Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence (2007) (6)
- Contrary to Popular Opinion (1992) (6)
- Dangerousness as a criterion for confinement. (1974) (6)
- The Impertinent Student and Stealth Prosecutor@@@The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law (2000) (6)
- Rights from wrongs (2004) (5)
- Affirmative Action and the Harvard College Diversity-Discretion Model: Paradigm or Pretext (1979) (5)
- Imprisonment by Judicial Hunch (1971) (5)
- The psychiatrist's power in civil commitment: a knife that cuts both ways. (1969) (5)
- Teaching America: The Case for Civic Education (2011) (5)
- Letters to a young lawyer (2001) (4)
- Criminal Law: Theory and Process (1974) (4)
- Harris v. New York: Some Anxious Observations on the Candor and Logic of the Emerging Nixon Majority (1971) (4)
- America on Trial (2004) (3)
- The Preventative State: Uncharted Waters after 9/11 (2009) (3)
- Reply: Torture Without Visibility and Accountability is Worse Than With It (2014) (3)
- What Israel Means to Me (2006) (3)
- Courts of terror: Soviet criminal justice and Jewish emigration (1976) (3)
- Imprisonment by Judicial Hunch: The Case Against Pretrial Preventive Detention (1970) (3)
- Moral Judgment: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System? (2000) (3)
- The Case Against the Goldstone Report: A Study in Evidentiary Bias (2010) (2)
- Academic freedom at the University of Stockholm (1991) (2)
- Taking Liberties: A Decade of Hard Cases, Bad Laws, and Bum Raps (1988) (2)
- Justice and Jonathan Pollard (1999) (1)
- The Advocate's Devil (1994) (1)
- Preventive Disbarment: The Numbers Are against It (1972) (1)
- WHY FEAR NATIONAL ID CARDS (2001) (1)
- Five Justices Decide the Election (2003) (1)
- Their Finest Billable Hour (2005) (0)
- Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism (2007) (0)
- Alan Dershowitz: Trump's 'calm before the storm' is a message to North Korea and Iran (2017) (0)
- The War of Ideas: The Role of the “Afterlife” (2009) (0)
- Dershowitz: Did Donald Trump Jr. commit a crime or merely political sin? It depends (2017) (0)
- Alan Dershowitz: Obama meddles in Brexit but shuns Netanyahu when he speaks up about Iran (2016) (0)
- The Final Decision (2003) (0)
- Arrests in Afghanistan (1982) (0)
- The Inconsistency of the Majority Justices With Their Previously Expressed Views (2003) (0)
- The Importance of Bush v. Gore to All Americans (2003) (0)
- Tsvi Blanchard Law and Redemptive Narrative : Genesis as a Cultural Resource in the Twenty-First Century (2010) (0)
- Is an Outright Ban the Best Way to Eliminate or Constrain Torture (2010) (0)
- A Tribute to Joseph Goldstein (2001) (0)
- Visibility, Accountability and Discourse as Essential to Democracy: The Underlying Theme of Alan Dershowitz's Writing and Teaching (2008) (0)
- Echoes of 1938 (2017) (0)
- Keynote Address: Lawyers' Ethics in a Constitutionalized Adversary System (2005) (0)
- Is Legal Ethics Asking the Right Questions (1996) (0)
- Alan Dershowitz: Free speech for NFL players but not the president? (2017) (0)
- Indeterminate Sentencing as a Mechanism of Preventive Confinement (1974) (0)
- Alan Dershowitz: Valerie Plame knew exactly what she was tweeting (2017) (0)
- Karyotype, Predictability and Culpability (1976) (0)
- In Honor of John Hart Ely (1988) (0)
- Increasing Community Control Over Corporate Crime: a Problem in the Law of Sanctions (2017) (0)
- David Boonin and Graham Oddie. What's Wrong? New York: Oxford Press, 2005, 746 pp. ISBN 0-19-516761-9 (pb). Stephen Boyden. The Biology of Civilisation. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press, 2004, 189 pp (indexed). ISBN 0-8840-766-6, $22.50 (pb) (2005) (0)
- Reversal of fortune (1985) (0)
- Alan Dershowitz: The case for a Kurdish state (and the hypocrisy behind opposition to it) (2017) (0)
- Does Trump have the right to expect loyalty from his Attorney General (2017) (0)
- Carter's Screed Against Israel (2007) (0)
- Why I Defend the Guilty and Innocent Alike (2013) (0)
- Brunch Address - "Is Legal Ethics Asking the Right Questions?" (1995) (0)
- Alan Dershowitz: Berkeley must defend Ben Shapiro's right to speak (2017) (0)
- Opening Address - "Is Legal Ethics Asking The Right Questions" (1996) (0)
- Would the Majority Have Stopped the Hand Count if Gore Had Been Ahead (2003) (0)
- Legal Ethics and the Constitution (2006) (0)
- The O. J. Simpson Corpus (1997) (0)
- Psycholanalysis, Psychiatry and Law (1968) (0)
- A Book Review with an Eye to Ethics (1983) (0)
- The Belmont Strangler (2006) (0)
- Evaluating a Proposed Criminal Code (1981) (0)
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