Alan Dershowitz
American lawyer, author, (1938 - ), New York, New York, USA
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Alan Dershowitz is a former Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He earned his A.B. in political science from Brooklyn College and his LL.B from Yale Law School.
Known as a devil’s advocate, he considers himself to be a civil libertarian. He has provided defense representation to numerous high-profile clients, including Harry Reems for Deep Throat, O.J. Simpson for murder, Jeffrey Epstein for sexual exploitation of minors, and Harvey Weinstein for sexual abuse. He has remained a champion for the rights of the accused, particularly in cases of rape.
He has written and commentated extensively in favor of the 2nd Amendment, legalized torture by warrant, and limited rights for animals (suggesting that we should treat animals in the same way we treat others of our species, and that to not do so is “speciesism”.
Dershowitz, once a board member for the American Civil Liberties Union, with a particular interest in First Amendment protections for pornography and neo-Nazi speech, has in recent days been openly critical of the American Civil Liberties Union, feeling it has become too liberal.
He has been named a Guggenheim Fellow and has been awarded the Soviet Jewry Freedom Award, selected by the Russian Jewish Community Foundation.
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According to Wikipedia, Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and former 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 the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.
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