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Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, Dershowitz joined the faculty of Harvard Law School at age 25. His research interests include civil rights and civil liberties, trial practice, and comparative and foreign law. He has published more than 1,000 articles in magazines, newspapers, journals, and blogs such as the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Huffington Post, Newsmax, Jerusalem Post, and Ha’aretz. Dershowitz has authored 30 works, both fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times #1 bestseller Chutzpah. He has also been the recipient of numerous academic awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on human rights; a fellowship at the Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences; and several Dean’s Awards for his books.