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My Take
Alan Dershowitz fascinates me precisely because he is so difficult to file away. A Brooklyn College kid who taught at Harvard Law School for nearly fifty years, he built his reputation on a principle most people endorse in theory and resent in practice: that everyone deserves a vigorous defense. I do not always agree with his commentary, and his cable-news persona can frankly exhaust me, but I respect the consistency of the underlying logic. The constitutional scholar and the media combatant are the same man, arguing in the same register. Whether you find him principled or merely contrarian probably says as much about you as it does about him, and that ambiguity is exactly why he matters.
Overview
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.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Alan Dershowitz
- Name (Japanese)
- アラン・ダーショウィッツ
- Reading
- あらん・だーしょうぃっつ
- Born
- September 1, 1938 (age 87)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Tiger
- Origin
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- screenwriter / university teacher / lawyer / art collector / jurist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Brooklyn College
Awards & achievements
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.