IRVING - For its next Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series event, the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) will host acclaimed civil liberties attorney Alan M. Dershowitz in Irving on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. The world-renowned litigator will share his concerns on the current state of political discourse.
“A special counsel should never have been appointed to investigate the so-called Russian connection,” writes Dershowitz today in The Hill. “In our age of hyperpartisanship, the public has understandably lost confidence in the ability and willingness of our leaders to separate their political views from their law enforcement decision. This is not all attributable to the appointment of the special counsel, but the criminalization of political differences on both sides of the aisle has certainly contributed to the atmosphere of distrust in our justice system.”
Dershowitz dedicates his latest book, Trumped Up: How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy, to “the shrinking number of true civil libertarians who place more importance on the rights and liberties of all Americans than on the partisan benefits of distorting the law to target political enemies.”
“We are delighted to bring Professor Dershowitz to Dallas,” said IPI president Tom Giovanetti. “A great communicator, guardian of our civil liberties and passionate defender of the U.S. Constitution, we welcome his important insights on the critical issues of today and the current state of political discourse.”
Professor Dershowitz, a regular contributor on CNN and Fox News, is a world-renowned litigator and has represented a series of celebrity clients, including Julian Assange, Mike Tyson and Patty Hearst. He has been called “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.”
In addition to Trumped Up, Dershowitz is the author of 30 other fiction and non-fiction works, including “The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott is Anti-Semitic and Anti-Peace,” his autobiography, Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law, as well as The New York Times #1 bestseller Chutzpah, Rights From Wrong; The Case For Israel; and The Case For Peace.
IPI’s Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Alan Dershowitz takes place at noon on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at the Omni Mandalay in Las Colinas.