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Alan Dershowitz

Alan DershowitzAKA Alan Morton Dershowitz

Born: 1-Sep-1938
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Attorney
Party Affiliation: Democratic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lawyer, represented Klaus von Bulow

Norman Finkelstein, Alexander Cockburn and Prof. Yehoshua Porath rightly accuse Dershowitz's writing in The Case for Israel of plagiarism. Passages of similarity are pointed out between this work and Joan Peters' 1984 book, From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-­Jewish Conflict over Palestine. Dershowitz repeatedly cites identical sources, sources he quite possibly did not actually consult in the writing of his work. Peters' work itself, which he definitely consulted extensively, is inadequately cited.

Dershowitz defended Claus von Bulow, a story told in Reversal of Fortune (1990).

Wife: (#1, two sons)
Son: Elon Dershowitz
Son: Jamin Dershowitz
Wife: Carolyn Cohen (one daughter)
Daughter: Ella

    High School: Yeshiva University High School
    University: BA, Brooklyn College (1959)
    Law School: LLB, Yale Law School (1962)
    Professor: Criminal Law, Harvard University

    Meese Commission witness (22-Jan-1986)
    Law Clerk for Arthur J. Goldberg (1963-64)
    Penthouse Columnist
    Friends of Hillary
    Hillary Clinton for President
    John Kerry for President
    Obama for Illinois
    Florida 2000 Recount
    Jewish Ancestry

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Lake of Fire (9-Sep-2006) Himself
    Inside Deep Throat (11-Feb-2005) Himself
    The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (Oct-1998) Himself

Author of books:
The Advocate's Devil (1994)
Reasonable Doubts (1996)
The Vanishing American Jew (1998)
Sexual McCarthyism (1998)
Just Revenge (1999)
The Genesis of Justice (2000)
Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 (2001)
Letters to a Young Lawyer (2001)
Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age (2002)
Why Terrorism Works (2002)
The Case For Israel (2003)
America On Trial (2004)


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