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'''Alan Morton Dershowitz''' is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.[http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=12] He is known for his work as an attorney in several high-profile cases, support for [[Zionism]] and Israel and his defence of torture. Dershowitz has been criticized for shoddy scholarship and plagiarism by people both on the left and the right.<ref>[http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20031013&s=cockburn][http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/fall2005/arkes.html]</ref>

In 2003, after the publication of the book ''[[The Case for Israel]]'', [[Norman Finkelstein]] accused Dershowitz, of "fraud, falsification, [[plagiarism]] and nonsense."[http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/1730205] Finkelstein noted that in twenty instances that all occur within about as many pages, Dershowitz's book excerpts the same words from the same sources that [[Joan Peters]] used in her book ''[[From Time Immemorial]]'', a book about the [[history of Israel]] that was recognized as a hoax by serious scholars in the US, and the UK as well as Israel.<ref>[http://www.chomsky.info/books/power01.htm] </ref> Several paragraph-long quotes that the two books share have ellipses in the same position, Finkelstein pointed out; and in one instance Dershowitz referenced the same page number as Peters, although he was citing a different edition of the source, in which the words appear on a different page.<ref>[http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=1]</ref>

:On a note both humorous and pathetic, Peters, in ''From Time Immemorial'', claiming to be inspired by George Orwell, coins the term "turnspeak" to signal the inversion of reality (pp. 173, 402). Dershowitz, apparently confounded by his massive borrowings from Peters, credits the term "turnspeak" to Orwell, accusing critics of Israel of "deliberately using George Orwell's 'turnspeak'" (p. 57) and "Orwellian turnspeak" (p. 153). Is this scandalous scholarship, or is it plagiarism, or is it both?<ref>[http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=1]</ref>

*[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20031013/cockburn Alan Dershowitz, Plagiarist], Alexander Cockburn, ''The Nation'', October 13, 2003*[http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/fall2005/arkes.html The Rights and Wrongs of Alan Dershowitz], Hadley Arkes, ''Claremont Review of Books'', November 4, 2005