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Alan Dershowitz

(1938) Art Collector United States

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Alan Dershowitz is an art collector from the United States, best known for Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo.

Quick Facts About Alan Dershowitz

Born: September 1, 1938
Nationality: United States
Profession: Art Collector
Notable works: Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo

About Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor who has taught at Harvard Law School. He is known for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law and often appears as a media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University

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“Buchanan infamously quipped: “There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East-the Israeli Defense Ministry…

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“For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea — that is, a criminal act…

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Crime

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African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their…

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African americans

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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic…

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Agnostic

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We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the…

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Amendments

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I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances…

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That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to…

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I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking,…

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Family

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“I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe…

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Conscience

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I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing…

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When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews,…

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Amendments

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Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother…

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In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak…

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If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did…

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Advocacy

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The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in…

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Bridges

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The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to…

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Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that…

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Communication

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Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be…

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I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a…

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Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to…

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Altruism

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We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting.…

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Access

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I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that…

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Action

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“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic…

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Atheism

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I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just…

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Ambiguity

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I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses…

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President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he…

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No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so…

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In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have…

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Choice

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There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry…

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Compromise

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In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support'…

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Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

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Differences

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In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's…

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Concerts

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I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in…

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Authority

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In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to…

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It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than…

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Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had…

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Bombs

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For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God…

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Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the…

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Acting

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I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the…

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Catholic

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There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish…

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