by Alan Dershowitz · Crown · tapa dura · ISBN 9780307719270
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«Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law» is Alan Dershowitz's legal autobiography, published by Crown in hardcover (528 pages, in English).
Dershowitz traces his education through his professorship at Harvard and his work as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg. He reflects on censorship, free speech, civil rights, abortion, and the role of science in legal defense, and evokes famous cases such as those of Claus von Bülow, O. J. Simpson, Mike Tyson, and Patty Hearst.
Non-fiction work framed in law, biography, and memoirs; Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard.
Readers interested in law, US judicial history, and autobiographical accounts by lawyers.
Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.
