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4 unusual facts about Alan Dershowitz


Bob Duval

The first book, Letters to a Young Lawyer, was written by Alan Dershowitz.

Matthew Kennard

Kennard also broke the story in the Daily Bruin of the Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz’s attempts to suppress the publication of Beyond Chutzpah (Norman Finkelstein) by the University of California Press.

ONE Family Fund

The organization's board of directors includes Canadian politician Irwin Cotler, American lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and former Israeli military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz wrote, in a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, "Surely Dean Thiemann would not have been asked to resign if he had been found using his Harvard-owned computer to keep track of his private stamp collection. Nor would he have been asked to leave if a cleaning person had found a copy of a pornographic magazine in the desk drawer of his Harvard-owned residence. What, then, is the principle, and where are the lines to be drawn?"


Erwin Griswold

One of the dominant figures in American legal education, he doubled the size of the faculty, bringing in such legal luminaries as Derek Bok, Kingman Brewster, Archibald Cox, and Alan Dershowitz.

Icon of Evil

Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam is a 2008 book by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann initially published by Random House; the 2009 version of the book by Transaction Publishers has an introduction by Alan Dershowitz.

Steve J. Rosen

Floyd Abrams, a leading First Amendment attorney, said the AIPAC case "is the single most dangerous case for free speech and free press" (Washington Post, March 31, 2006) and Alan Dershowitz called it “the worst case of selective prosecution I have seen in 42 years of legal practice” (Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2006).

Supreme Injustice

Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 is a book by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz.


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