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My Teaching And Academic Writing Have Centered On Several Overarching Themes. Between My Earliest Articles On The Preventive Detention Of The Dangerously Mentally Ill And My Recent Series Of Books On The Prevention Of Terrorism
document My teaching and academic writing have centered on several overarching themes. Between my earliest articles on the preventive detention of the dangerously mentally ill and my recent series of books on the prevention of terrorism House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pp.

my major academic focus has been on prediction and prevention of harmful conduct. I’ve taught numerous classes about that and related issues. The writings ranged from the preemption and prevention of harmful conduct by the mentally ill

Criminal Law; Constitutional Litigation; Family Law; Psychiatry And The Law; The Prediction And Prevention Of Harmful Conduct; Race And Violence; The Scriptural Sources Of Justice; The Law Of Sports; The Legal
document Criminal Law; Constitutional Litigation; Family Law; Psychiatry and the Law; the Prediction and Prevention of Harmful Conduct; Race and Violence; the Scriptural Sources of Justice; the Law of Sports; the Legal House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pp.

Moral and Psychological Implications of Shakespeare’s Tragedies; Ethics and Tactics in the Trial of Criminal Cases; Human Rights; Terrorism and the Law; Probabilities and the Law; a Comparative Analysis of Talmud and Common Law; Wikileaks a...

Over My Long Career At Harvard
document Over my long career at Harvard House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pp.

I’ve published a great deal. I’ve never counted but one of my secretaries estimated that she typed a million words a year for me (including legal briefs). This would amount to 500 books! I love writing. I write every day

In Order To Obtain Tenure
document In order to obtain tenure House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pp.

each assistant professor had to publish a “tenure piece.” I wrote an article on the relationship between law and psychiatry that was critical of the law’s overreliance on psychiatry in judging whether mentally ill criminals could be held re...

Dean Erwin Griswold Informed Me That I Had Offended One Of The Law School’s Most Important And Influential Alumni
document Dean Erwin Griswold informed me that I had offended one of the Law School’s most important and influential alumni House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pp.

that I was the only assistant professor ever to turn down an invitation to speak at that club and that it was important for untenured faculty to present their work there because several of the members served on the Harvard Board of Overseer...

The Star Student In My First Year Class Was A Woman From New York Who Eventually Became A Distinguished Judge. She Received An A Grade On The Final Exam. Three Of Her Other First Year Teachers Also Gave Her A Grades
document The star student in my first year class was a woman from New York who eventually became a distinguished judge. She received an A grade on the final exam. Three of her other first year teachers also gave her A grades House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pp.

but her contracts teacher gave her a D. She came to me upset about her D grade and asked me to read her exam. I read it and it was clearly of A quality. I was sure that her contracts professor had simply made a transcription error and so I....

A Few Years After I Became A Full Professor
document A few years after I became a full professor House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pp.

Derek Bok became the Dean of the Law School. We never got along all that well. One day he called me into his office with a smile on his face and told me that I was a very expensive professor. Since salaries are fairly standard at Harvard

I Introduced A Lot Philosophy And Psychology Into The Classroom
document I introduced a lot philosophy and psychology into the classroom House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pp.

and because I was teaching criminal law. I had a lot of freedom since no one really cared about criminal law at Harvard. Our students were unlikely to become criminal lawyers in those days. In fact

“Professor Dershowitz Seems To Epitomize Some Of The Lack Of Reality At The Law School….Until Such Time As Our Whole Penalogical System Is Changed
document “Professor Dershowitz seems to epitomize some of the lack of reality at the law school….Until such time as our whole penalogical system is changed House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pp.

the law student is going to have to know his ‘law’ as his preliminary basis for the experience to cope with existing institutions and do a lawyer’s job. One cannot deny the credentials of Professor Dershowitz’s genius

It Described Me As “Probably The Youngest Man Ever Named To The Harvard Law School Faculty
document It described me as “probably the youngest man ever named to the Harvard Law School faculty House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pp.

[who] got his appointment at age 24.” It quotes me as making the heretical statement that: “there’s no such thing as The Law….Law is one of our many processes for ordering society. You can’t view this process as a neatly compartmentalized e...