Alan M. Dershowitz

Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Criminal Law
• Rights

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Civil Liberties
• Criminal Law
• Jewish Law

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Litigation/Trials/Criminal Process
• Rights
• Speech

Education

• Brooklyn College A.B. 1959
• Yale Law School LL.B. 1962

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1964
• Professor of Law, 1967
• Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, 1993

Representative Publications

• Dershowitz, Alan M. Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways (W.W. Norton & Company 2006).
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• Dershowitz, Alan M. The Case for Peace (John Wiley & Sons 2005).
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• Dershowitz, Alan M. America on Trial: Inside the legal battles that transformed our nation -from the Salem witches to the Guantanamo Detainees (Warner Books 2004).
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• Dershowitz, Alan M. America Declares Independence (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003).
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• Dershowitz, Alan M. The Case for Israel (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003).
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• Dershowitz, Alan M. Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age (Little Brown 2002).
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• Dershowitz, Alan M. Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge (Yale University Press 2002).
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• Dershowitz, Alan M. Letters to a Young Lawyer (Basic Books 2001).
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• Dershowitz, Alan M. Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 (Oxford University Press 2001).
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• Dershowitz, Alan M. The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law (Warner Books 2000).
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Bibliography

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