Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School, where he taught from 1964 to 2013. He was appointed the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is widely recognized for his expertise in U.S. constitutional and criminal law, and he frequently contributes to media as a political commentator and legal analyst.
Throughout his career, Dershowitz has taken on high-profile and often controversial cases.