Defending Unpopular Causes: a talk by Alan Dershowitz
with an introduction by Jonathan Plutzik, owner of The Betsy Hotel
Mr. Dershowitz will be signing copies of his to most recent books after the presentation.
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” He has also published more than 1000 articles in magazines, newspapers, journals and blogs such as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, Huffington Post, Newsmax, Jerusalem Post and Ha’aretz. Professor Dershowitz is the author of more than 30 fiction and non-fiction works with a worldwide audience, including The New York Times #1 bestseller Chutzpah and five other national bestsellers. Recent publications include, Trumped Up: How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy (Post Hill Press, 2017), and The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott Is Anti-Semitic and Anti-Peace (Post Hill Press, 2018).