# Alan Dershowitz

Alan Morton Dershowitz (; born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his scholarship of U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law, and a noted commentator on civil liberties issues. He taught at Harvard Law School from 1964 through 2013, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993 Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst. He is also a prominent voice on the Arab–Israeli conflict and has written several books on the subject.