One Day University

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Flex Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. The Brooklyn native, a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, joined the Harvard Law School faculty at the age of 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg. Dershowitz is known for using his famed legal skills defending clients such as Anatoly Sharansky, Claus von Bulow, O.J. Simpson, Michael Milkin, and Mike Tyson, but it is hos work representing indigent clients that he is most proud of.

The current unrest in the Middle East is certainly now new. In this class, Professor Dershowitz will lay out his own assessments of the Israeli-Arab conflict and even offer some solutions that sometimes may help resolve the conflict.

Among Professor Dershowitz’s thoughts…

“In most European countries, the left wing political parties anti-Israel, often virulently so. The right wing political parties are generally more supportive of Israel, though not nearly as supportive as they should be in many instances. Because you people tend to be more liberal that their elders, support for Israel throughout Europe has also become a generational wedge issue, with your younger people opposing Israel far more than older people…”