BIO

Alan Hirsch is a professor/ attorney/ writer, educated at Amherst College (B.A. in Philosophy, 1981) and Yale Law School (J.D., 1985). While Prof. Hirsch’s work has embraced numerous aspects of both the civil and criminal justice systems, he has increasingly focused his attention on false confessions – studying it, writing about it, and assisting attorneys as a retained expert consultant and/or witness.  Prof. Hirsch has been retained in more than 300 cases, and been qualified as an expert in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado,  Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.

Prof. Hirsch is currently a Lecturer in the Humanities at Williams College and chair of Williams’ Justice and Law Studies program.  He has also taught constitutional law at Williams and at Bennington College. His other involvement with the law over three decades includes:

• Law Clerk for Judge Edward Becker on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

• Senior Attorney/Writer for the Federal Judicial Center.

• Author of six books and monographs, more than a dozen scholarly articles in leading law journals, and over 20 op-eds and magazine articles on various aspects of the legal system, appearing in The Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, Washington Times, and Newsday, among other publications.