Professor Alan M. Dershowitz of Harvard Law School was described by Newsweek as the nations most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights. Italian newspaper Oggi called him the best-known criminal lawyer in the world, and The Forward named him Israel's single most visible defender, the Jewish states' lead attorney in the court of public opinion. Born in Brooklyn, he was appointed to the Harvard Law School faculty at age twenty-five and became a full professor at age twenty-eight, the youngest in the schools history. He has been a consultant to several presidential commissions, and has advised presidents, United Nations officials, prime ministers, governors, senators, and members of Congress. More than a million people have heard him lecture around the world. He is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard. Dershowitz is the author of thirty nonfiction works and two novels. More than a million of his books have been sold worldwide, in more than a dozen different languages. His recent titles include the bestseller The Case For Israel, Rights from Wrong, The Case for Peace, The Case for Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza, and his autobiography Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law.