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Alan Dershowitz

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Alan Morton Dershowitz ( DURR-shə-wits; born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Dershowitz has received more than 9,102,480 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Alan Dershowitz is the 37th most popular lawyer (up from 39th in 2019), the 2,857th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,605th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Lawyer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alan Dershowitzs by language

Over the past year Alan Dershowitz has had the most page views in the with 1,231,890 views, followed by French (40,656), and German (38,066). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (519.46%), Turkish (481.53%), and Spanish (219.53%)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Alan Dershowitz ranks 37 out of 136. Before him are Qasim Amin, Kiki Camarena, Lucius Cincius Alimentus, Franz von Liszt, Alfenus Varus, and Hans Litten. After him are Asad ibn al-Furat, Heinrich Marx, Hans von Dohnanyi, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Bill Gates Sr., and Tivadar Soros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Alan Dershowitz ranks 165. Before him are Jean Eustache, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Oleg Gordievsky, Goh Kun, Luis Artime, and Ronny Cox. After him are Manuel Sanchís Martínez, Astrid Kirchherr, Jean-Loup Chrétien, Violetta Villas, Derviş Eroğlu, and Myroslav Skoryk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Dershowitz ranks 2,857 out of 20,380. Before him are Fritz Leiber (1910), Everett McGill (1945), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), and Selena (1971). After him are Saul Perlmutter (1959), Cy Young (1867), John W. Campbell (1910), George Mikan (1924), Rodney Alcala (1943), and Mabel Normand (1892).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Alan Dershowitz ranks 5. Before him are J. Edgar Hoover (1895), Leo Frank (1884), John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), and Warren Christopher (1925). After him are Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Robert Bilott (1965), Paul Alexander (1946), Louis Brandeis (1856), Roy Cohn (1927), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), and James B. Donovan (1916).

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