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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.
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
- Occupation
- screenwriter / university teacher / lawyer / art collector / jurist
2. Background
- University
- Brooklyn College
Awards & achievements
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Frequently asked questions
When was Alan Dershowitz born?
Born September 1, 1938 (age 87).
Where is Alan Dershowitz from?
Alan Dershowitz is from Brooklyn, New York, United States.
What does Alan Dershowitz do?
Alan Dershowitz works as screenwriter, university teacher, lawyer, art collector, jurist.
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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 or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.