ALAN MORTON DERSHOWITZ (n. 1938) este un celebru avocat si profesor universitar american. A studiat la Brooklyn College si Yale Law School, iar la 28 de ani a devenit profesor universitar la Harvard Law School. A fost avocatul unor celebritati diverse (O.J. Simpson, Jeffrey Epstein, Claus von Bulow, Harvey Weinstein, Julian Assange). Cariera sa prodigioasa a fost onorata cu numeroase premii si titluri academice, intre altele cu Premiul „William O. Douglas – First Amendment” decernat de Anti-Defaimation League in 1983. A scris peste 1 000 de articole publicate in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Law Review etc. Este autorul a 35 de lucrari de o factura diversa, dintre care amintim: Chutzpah (1991), Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case (1996), The Vanishing American Jew (1997), Sexual McCarthyism (1998), Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 (2001), Why Terrorism Works (2002), The Case for Israel (2003), The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved (2005), The Case for Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza (2009), Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law (2013), Abraham: The World’s First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer (2015), The Case Against Impeaching Trump (2018).